LEXINGTON, Ky. _ To understand how Kentucky football has risen from SEC East bottom feeder at the start of this decade to league respectability the past three seasons, one need look at only one factor:
The dramatic role reversals Mark Stoops has engineered against three Southeastern Conference East Division rivals.
UK will enter 2019 having beaten South Carolina five games in a row, Missouri four straight times and Vanderbilt four out of five.
Those positive streaks have been the foundation of Stoops' elevation process that has taken Kentucky from 2-10 in 2013 to 10-3 last season.
Let's examine Kentucky's "state of the series" with South Carolina, Mizzou and Vandy:
