The most shocking achievement for Mark Stoops and his resilient Kentucky football team is not that the Wildcats (7-1, 5-1) opened at No. 9 in the initial College Football Playoff rankings.
Nor is it that the Cats will face No. 6 Georgia (7-1, 5-1 SEC) Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at Kroger Field in a winner-take-all showdown for the SEC East crown.
No, the most unexpected UK football accomplishment of 2018 is this: Next Tuesday, the Kentucky men’s basketball team opens its season against hated rival Duke. Yet this week, I literally have not heard one UK fan talking about the hoops Cats’ face-off with the House of Krzyzewski.