Mark Stoops has propelled Kentucky up the SEC Football ladder by knocking down one door at a time. Everyone in the BBN knows the final boss in the SEC East is Georgia. To make the SEC regular season finale against the Dogs meaningful, Kentucky must take care of business in 50-50 games, more specifically, against Tennessee and the Mississippi schools.
Conquering the Lower Tier of the SEC East
The long climb up the SEC ladder starts at the bottom. After producing ho-hum results in the first three years of the Stoops era, since 2016 Kentucky is 16-2 against Missouri, South Carolina and Vanderbilt.