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Mark Story: For Kentucky football, 2023 might be the last shot at a historic SEC breakthrough

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Swimming against a mighty current of contrary opinion, I think the Southeastern Conference is making a mistake in potentially moving away from football divisions.

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How Kentucky QB Will Levis worked his way from run-first backup to top NFL draft prospect

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Less than two years before he would become one of the most talked about players in the 2023 NFL draft class, Will Levis found himself in a surprising spot during his first Kentucky football training camp.

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Mark Story: For Mark Stoops and troops, 10 ways to make positive history in 2023

It is a measure of the improvement in the Kentucky football program under Mark Stoops that the type of season that used to be celebrated at UK — 7-6 with a bowl trip — was considered a major disappointment for the Wildcats in 2022.

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Kentucky High School Football Player Dies After Head Injury Sustained in Spring Game

The junior sustained the injury during a scrimmage Friday.

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John Clay: How is Kentucky football’s run game? Here’s a frank assessment from someone who knows.

Jeremy Flax didn’t waste time voicing his opinion.

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John Clay: For Kentucky football, this spring practice is all about reestablishing a mindset

As Kentucky opened its spring football practice back on March 6, Mark Stoops said this about 2022:

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Liam Coen returning to Kentucky to run the Wildcats’ offense. Here’s why and what’s ahead.

The worst-kept secret for Kentucky football is a secret no more.

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John Clay: Distressed by Kentucky's ugly Music City Bowl loss to Iowa? Don’t be.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — At the end of the day, here’s what Kentucky's 21-0 loss to Iowa in the Music City Bowl last Saturday meant: Nothing.

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Kentucky vs Iowa TransPerfect Music City Bowl Prediction Game Preview

Kentucky vs Iowa game preview, prediction, and breakdown for the TransPerfect Music City Bowl on Saturday, December 31

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Report: Rams OC Liam Coen Heading Back to Kentucky

He was Kentucky’s offensive coordinator in ’21.

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Mark Story: Now that the battle is on, who has the advantage, Mark Stoops or Jeff Brohm?

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Four years ago, when the University of Louisville was trying to woo native son Jeff Brohm home to clean up the mess left by Bobby Petrino, my column about that attempt ran under a strong headline:

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Kentucky’s Will Levis announces he won’t play in Music City Bowl, declares for NFL draft

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky will play its bowl game without star quarterback Will Levis.

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John Clay: Pass the popcorn: Transfer portal, coaching moves have turned college football crazy

And you thought last year was crazy. Transfer portal crazy. Record-breaking crazy. When a multitude of college football players walked out on the diving board and did a triple-somersault into the packed portal you thought you’d seen it all. You were wrong. We were wrong.

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Mark Story: You say there are no pluses in UK’s return to Music City Bowl to play Iowa? Here are 5.

No sooner did word break via Twitter on Sunday afternoon that Kentucky was headed back to the Music City Bowl for a postseason rematch with Iowa on New Year’s Eve at noon than the unhappiness started raining down on the Big Blue Nation.

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Mark Story: Why we will look back at 2022 as the year Kentucky actually ‘joined’ the SEC

LEXINGTON, Ky. — For some six decades, the general reaction to a University of Kentucky football season that yielded a winning record of any kind fell somewhere between contentment and excitement.

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John Clay: Kentucky football’s Mark Stoops has a balancing act to perform when assessing season

The regular season is over. The decision-making season begins now. And Mark Stoops has decisions to make. It’s why he’s paid the big bucks. Even bigger bucks all the time.

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Lane Kiffin Isn’t the Only One in the Coaching Rumor Mill

The Ole Miss coach squashed reports this week, but here is what we’re hearing around that Auburn opening and potential changes at Nebraska, Wisconsin and Colorado.

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Mark Stoops feels bad about timing of contract extension, but will use it in recruiting

Mark Stoops knows the timing was awkward.

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John Clay: Kentucky-Louisville football: This isn’t the Governor’s Cup we expected

Hey, it’s Governor’s Cup week, but it’s not the Kentucky-Louisville football week we once expected.

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Mark Stoops signs contract extension with Kentucky that includes raise, increased buyout

One day before Kentucky football’s loss to Vanderbilt earlier this month, the school signed head coach Mark Stoops to a contract extension that would keep him as coach through the 2030 season.

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Kentucky’s Mark Stoops Gets Contract Extension, Raise

The Wildcats quietly gave the 55-year-old a new deal, one day before an ugly loss to Vanderbilt.

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John Clay: Should he stay or should he go? Will Kentucky football stick with Rich Scangarello?

The hire made sense. To coordinate Kentucky’s offense, Mark Stoops replaced one former NFL assistant coach with another former NFL assistant coach. Liam Coen came from the Kyle Shanahan/Mike Shanahan coaching tree. Rich Scangarello came from the Kyle Shanahan/Mike Shanahan coaching tree. On paper, the transition from Coen to Scangarello…

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John Clay: It hasn’t been pretty, but a 6-3 Kentucky football team is nothing to take for granted

Despite the busts, the blunders and special teams sins Mark Stoops’ team committed Saturday at Missouri, it’s important to keep the main thing the main thing.

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Mark Story: For once, in a football game vs. Tennessee, there’s no pressure on Kentucky

An SEC East “battle of two-ranked teams” is not the primary narrative in the run-up to Saturday night’s football border battle between No. 19 Kentucky and No. 3 Tennessee.

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Why Kentucky thinks methodical pace can be a strength in battle of tempo with Tennessee

Kentucky football offensive coordinator Rich Scangarello might be reminding his players of the story of the tortoise and the hare in the buildup to a matchup with No. 3 Tennessee this week.

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