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Now, Stoops’ defense faces its kryptonite. Can UK finally solve puzzle of the running QB?

After dispatching plucky Murray State 48-10 Saturday before a sun-drenched Kroger Field crowd announced at 48,217, Mark Stoops and the Kentucky Wildcats are again face-to-face with a familiar peril.

When No. 16 Mississippi State (2-0, 0-0 going into Saturday night’s contest with Louisiana) comes to Lexington next week to face the Cats (3-0, 1-0), the Bulldogs will, in Nick Fitzgerald, be bringing what has long been the kryptonite of Kentucky defenses.

The run-oriented, dual-threat quarterback.

Kentucky backers do not have to be asleep to conjure haunting visions of the running QBs of the past who have gashed the Cats.