For decades, Kentucky football’s paradigm was that, in the bad seasons, the Wildcats would win two or three games while in the good years UK would win six or seven.
From that perspective, it is a big-picture sign of program growth that Kentucky — having won 10 games in two of the four seasons before the current one — went 7-5 in 2022 and, seemingly by acclaim, the year is considered a disappointment.
Coming off a season when expectations soared but results declined, UK head man Mark Stoops faces the challenging task of “re-fitting” a Kentucky program that seemed to lose its way a bit in a frustrating 2022.
