The last time the Kentucky Wildcats produced a great — not good, but great — football season, the Cats unleashed a dominant defense led by a disruptive force on the edge.
As Fran Curci’s 1977 Cats went unbeaten in the SEC (6-0) and 10-1 overall, end Art Still, a Camden, N.J., product, controlled games from his defensive end position.
For Mark Stoops and the unbeaten and soon-to-be nationally-ranked 2018 Wildcats, there is still a whole lot of football between the giddy present and a truly great season.
But in UK’s impressive 28-7 throttling of No. 14 Mississippi State (3-1, 0-1 SEC) Saturday night before a raucous, rain-drenched crowd of 60,037, Kentucky outside linebacker/rush end Josh Allen did a sterling job awakening the ghosts of 1977.