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Mark Thomas Stoops (born July 9, 1967) is an American college football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at the University of Kentucky, a position he has held since the 2013 season. Stoops is the all-time winningest head coach in the history of the Kentucky Wildcats football program. He is also the longest tenured SEC ...
The Wildcats compete as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 37 head coaches since it began play during the 1881 season. [1] On November 27, 2012, Mark Stoops was introduced as Kentucky's 37th head coach. [2] The team has played more than 1,150 games over 122 seasons of Kentucky football. [1]
Until about 1913, the modern University of Kentucky was referred to as "Kentucky State College" and nearby Transylvania University was known as "Kentucky University". In 1880, Kentucky University and Centre College played the first intercollegiate football game in Kentucky. Kentucky State first fielded a football team in 1881, playing three ...
Derrick Kent Ramsey (born December 23, 1956) was Kentucky Secretary of Education and Workforce Development in 2018 and 2019, [ 1] under Governor Matt Bevin, after serving as secretary of the Labor Cabinet from 2015 to 2018. [ 2] He served as Deputy Secretary of Commerce under another Republican governor, Ernie Fletcher, from 2003 to 2007. [ 2]
The 1972 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. Led by fourth-year head coach John Ray , the Wildcats compiled an overall record of 3–8, with a mark of 2–5 in conference play, and finished tied for ...
LEXINGTON — Two of Kentucky coach Mark Stoops' best signing classes have come in the past four years.. In 2020, the Wildcats inked the nation's 25th-best class, according to the 247Sports ...
The nickname "Wildcats" became synonymous with UK shortly after a 6–2 football road victory over Illinois on October 9, 1909. Commandant Philip W. Corbusier, then head of the military department at old State University, told a group of students in a chapel service following the game that the Kentucky football team had "fought like Wildcats."
The 2021 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky (UK) in the 2021 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Wildcats played their home games at Kroger Field in Lexington, Kentucky, and competed in the East Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They were led by ninth-year head coach Mark Stoops .