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Kentucky football reaches its week of reckoning

It is a self-evident truth that one game does not a college football season make. Yet for each of Kentucky’s three FBS football programs, this coming Saturday shapes up as a pivotal moment in determining the arc of their seasons.

When Mark Stoops and the Kentucky Wildcats visit South Carolina on Saturday night, they will seek to do something that no UK football team has achieved since the days when Bear Bryant wore blue: Beat an SEC foe not named Vanderbilt for a fourth consecutive year.

ESPN’s “College GameDay” will be on hand in Louisville as reigning Heisman Trophy winner Lamar Jackson and the U of L Cardinals face defending national champion Clemson in a game whose kickoff has been moved by ABC from afternoon to prime time (8 p.