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UK’s Snell, Allen cement status as all-time Cats’ football icons

Babe Parilli and Bob Gain are synonymous with Bear Bryant’s 11-1 Kentucky team in 1950.

Derrick Ramsey and Art Still are forever identified with Fran Curci’s 10-1 UK team from 1977.

On Tuesday, with a chance to lead Mark Stoops’ 2018 Wildcats to what would only be Kentucky’s third 10-win season ever, Josh Allen and Benny Snell etched their names into the highest level of Kentucky football lore.

With its star players leading the way, No. 14 Kentucky (10-3) outlasted No. 12 Penn State (9-4) 27-24 to win the VRBO Citrus Bowl before 59,167 fans in Orlando’s Camping World Stadium on New Year’s Day.