Week 1 of the college football season has come and gone. Many programs chose to start their season with a warm-up game against a clearly lesser opponent - Clemson against Furman, Georgia against Austin Peay, Oklahoma against Florida Atlantic, Cincinnati against UCLA - but in Week 2, conference play starts for some.
One of the most critical in-conference matchups in Week 2 will test two coaches at different junctures in their current position. On one sideline, we have Kentucky’s Mark Stoops, hoping to truly break through in his sixth season in Lexington. The Wildcats have improved from their cratering at the end of the Joker Phillips era to qualify for bowl games two seasons in a row, but have yet to show that they can truly compete in an improving SEC East.