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How Mark Stoops put UK football in a position previous coaches could not

Bill Curry couldn’t do it. Hal Mumme couldn’t do it. Guy Morriss couldn’t do it. Rich Brooks couldn’t do it. Joker Phillips couldn’t do it.

So how did Mark Stoops do it?

That’s a relevant question three days before Stoops’ Kentucky Wildcats play Kirby Smart’s Georgia Bulldogs on Saturday at Kroger Field for the right to represent the SEC East in the league championship game Dec. 1 in Atlanta.

How has the current Kentucky head football coach succeeded where previous UK coaches had failed since the SEC first expanded in 1992 and put the Wildcats in position for a chance to play for the league title?