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'It's definitely a big man's game': Kentucky football coming up bigger

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Technique will take you only so far in football. At some point, physics becomes the decisive factor.

That point is typically found at the point of attack in the Southeastern Conference.

“SEC size is a real thing,” Kentucky center Drake Jackson said Friday. “You get to college and everybody’s massive, everybody has a low amount of body fat and everybody’s just fast and big.

“I know in years past the coaches talked about us struggling with that. We didn’t have guys that looked like that. You put them in a different uniform and (wonder), ‘Did they belong at that school?