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Defense was key to UK’s historic 2018. Can it be big again after losing 7 starters?

Blue defeats White 64-10 in the UK Blue-White spring football game Friday at Kroger Field in Lexington. By

Kentucky in 2018 won 10 games and was a nationally-respected Southeastern Conference football team because it played like one.

That was especially true on defense: the Wildcats allowed 16.8 points per game, second in the SEC behind only Mississippi State and sixth across all of college football. National champion Clemson — the nation’s leader in the category — allowed just 3.7 fewer points and about 40 fewer yards than the Wildcats, who ranked 21st nationally in that stat (332.