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When Maddie Scherr’s name appeared in the transfer portal after the former Ryle High School star’s second season at Oregon, Kyra Elzy turned to a vintage Kentucky women’s basketball program tactic to woo her.

For Kentucky football, the main goal remains attainable. Get to Atlanta. Win the SEC East. Play in the conference championship game. Short of that, the goal is to make that Nov. 19 matchup with Georgia at Kroger Field mean something. Or everything, actually.

Driving for a possible go-ahead touchdown or game-tying field goal, Kentucky star quarterback Will Levis lost two fumbles late in the fourth quarter that helped No. 14 Ole Miss hold on for a 22-19 win over the No. 7 Wildcats.

There may be no better illustration of what Kentucky football hopes star running back Chris Rodriguez can bring to the team when he returns from a four-game suspension Saturday than what happened when he last touched the ball in a Wildcats uniform.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — One is about defense, the other about offense, but when seventh-ranked Kentucky plays 14th-ranked Ole Miss on Saturday at Oxford, the two head coaches have much in common.

Ole Miss vs Kentucky game preview, prediction, and breakdown for the Week 5 game on Saturday, October 1

In 2018, during the run-up to Kentucky’s SEC football showdown with No. 14 Mississippi State, two primary storylines dominated the discourse.

At one point during a recent Kentucky Wildcats football practice, the sight of exiled UK running back Christopher Rodriguez in the huddle with the Cats’ second-string offense moved his teammates to levity.

Is Kentucky overrated? You could make that case. True, Mark Stoops’ Wildcats are a perfect 4-0, but their rise up the national charts is based largely on that Sept. 10 win at Florida. The Gators have struggled since, squeaking out a home win over lowly South Florida before losing to…