The Latest Breaking News from Mark Stoops

We should have expected this. Four starters gone. Two were NFL Draft picks. A third was the starting left tackle. One former starting guard is now starting at center. The other former starting guard is now playing tackle. Little wonder Kentucky football’s offensive line has started, should we say, slowly.

With one quarter of the 2022 Kentucky Wildcats football season in the books, an awful lot has gone right.

Through the first three games of the 2022 college football season, this Kentucky football team is undefeated and ranked in the AP top 10, yet it sees a troubling cloud gathering on the horizon.

When debating the idea of whether Mark Stoops would ever be tempted to leave Kentucky for some college football power, the argument goes that at his current pace, one day UK might build a statue in Stoops’ honor.

For Mark Stoops, Saturday is a homecoming away from home.

Nebraska will pay (handsomely) for its denial around its now-former coach, but it isn’t the only program in hot water.

If you peruse the Florida pregame notes package previewing the No. 12 Gators’ SEC East showdown Saturday night against No. 20 Kentucky, you find an interesting nugget.

There’s a reason it’s called “The Swamp”

LEXINGTON, Ky. — On Saturday night, Mark Stoops earned his 60th career win as Kentucky’s football coach with No. 20 UK’s uneven 37-13 victory over Miami (Ohio).

Will Levis had just hung 303 passing yards and three touchdowns on Miami (Ohio). The Penn State transfer had just run his record as Kentucky’s starting quarterback to 11-3 with a 37-13 vanquishing of the plucky RedHawks.

Over the short term, I would argue Mark Stoops was the winner in the public dust-up with John Calipari that followed last month’s “basketball school” imbroglio.