The year is 1986 and Haley’s comet had just passed the Earth. The comet only comes around every 75 years or so but the way the Florida-Kentucky series was going it seemed that Haley would come back to say hello without the Wildcats tasting victory on the football field against Florida.
Just 286 days into being the head coach of the Florida Gators Dan Mullen has a big bluegrass stain on his résumé that six coaches previous never did.
All streaks end, but Florida’s 31-game winning streak over Kentucky felt like it never would, until it did, in Mullen’s first conference game and a game that wasn’t all that close.