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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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John Clay: ‘He’s a superhero.’ The legend of Will Levis grows with Kentucky football’s huge win.

Peyton Manning got it right.

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Will Levis is still ‘day to day’ as Kentucky football starts prep for Mississippi State

Kentucky football quarterback Will Levis remains uncertain with a foot injury as the Wildcats prepare for another top-25 matchup with Mississippi State.

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Mark Story: Can UK football save a season that seems to be slipping away?

Whatever else one thinks of Mark Stoops’ coaching performance in No. 13 Kentucky’s dispiriting 24-14 home loss to SEC East-rival South Carolina, the UK head man got one thing very right Saturday.

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John Clay: Life without Levis was a letdown, but let’s not give up on Kentucky football just yet

You’re ready, right? You’ve seen enough. The fumbles. The bad snaps. The missed field goals. The sacks. All those sacks. If you’re a Kentucky football fan in the middle of a two-game losing streak, you’re not just ready to hit the panic button, you’re ready to stand on it.

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Bill Self took a subtle shot at John Calipari’s ‘basketball school’ comment on College GameDay

Who says you have to be a football school or a basketball school? Other than John Calipari.

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Stoops Gives Hilarious Reaction When Asked About Levis’s Status

The Kentucky coach wouldn’t elaborate on his quarterback’s status for Saturday in hilarious fashion.

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John Clay: Kentucky football’s main goal remains reachable, but South Carolina is a tricky test

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.

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Mark Story: No time to mope. UK football’s next five foes have an axe to grind with the Cats.

The ardor with which Kentucky football pursued victory Saturday at then-No. 14 Mississippi was impeccable.

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‘I wouldn’t trade him for anybody’: Mark Stoops supports Will Levis after Ole Miss fumbles

The push-back on the growing hype for Kentucky football quarterback Will Levis has been strong since his two red-zone fumbles in the fourth quarter of a 22-19 loss at Ole Miss.

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John Clay: Kentucky football’s next big question: How will the Cats react to loss at Ole Miss?

OXFORD, Miss. — Too many mistakes. Too many errors. Too many miscues. A top-10 team via the AP college football rankings, Kentucky did not play like a top-10 team in its 22-19 loss at Ole Miss on Saturday.

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Why Kentucky Wildcats are confident Chris Rodriguez will boost offense after suspension

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.

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John Clay: Mark Stoops vs. Lane Kiffin: Successful sons of the family business go head-to-head

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.

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Mark Story: At Ole Miss, Mark Stoops and UK arrive at another ‘door’ to be knocked down

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

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