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John Clay: Five storylines for SEC Football Media Days this week in Nashville

It might be the middle of a hot-baked July, but our fall pigskin festival is right around the corner. We’re talking football. And this week, down in Music City, we’ll be talking a lot of football.

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Mark Story: Let’s have a frank talk about Kentucky’s football recruiting

LEXINGTON, Ky. — For the second straight summer, some element of the Kentucky fan base has worked itself into a bit of a tizzy over UK football recruiting.

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Mark Story: Evaluating the coaching job Mark Stoops has done at Kentucky

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Even after Kentucky’s lackluster 7-6 football season in 2022, Mark Stoops continues to receive ample respect in the national rankings of the best college football coaches.

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Mark Story: ‘It’s going to be different.’ Ex-UK football standout will soon seek to beat the Cats.

CJ Conrad takes a backseat to no one in the category of who has had the most eventful past two months.

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Mark Story: For both coaches, the 2023 UK-Louisville football game will carry unusually high stakes

From the moment in December when Jeff Brohm was hired as Louisville’s football coach, he and his intrastate coaching archrival, Kentucky’s Mark Stoops, have been making nice.

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John Clay: Are you in or out on these Kentucky college football topics for 2023?

Memorial Day weekend is almost here. That means Labor Day weekend can’t be that far away, which means college football isn’t that far away.

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Mark Story: Mark Stoops or Jeff Brohm: Who is ‘winning’ the offseason?

The first game with Mark Stoops and Kentucky vs. Jeff Brohm and Louisville will come Nov. 25 at L&N Federal Credit Union (nee Cardinal) Stadium.

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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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