[Brooks4Prez]

I am sure it was. The cupcake nonconference schedule is why UK will never be a contender in the SEC. They schedule a bunch of nobodies and get nothing but hollow victories that does not prepare them for anything that will prepare them for conference play and gives the players and fans a bunch of false hopes that they will be good enough to earn a berth in a toilet bowl against another team with six wins that does not need to be in a bowl game.
If Stoops is the great, bold coach that everyone says and hopes he is, why not upgrade the nonconference schedule even have a nonconference road game the seasons they play UofL at home. Playing Direction University is not getting it done.

UAB, Southern Miss, South Alabama, and UT Martin. That's Mississipi State's non conference schedule this year. Could certainly be argued that Cats out of conference schedule is tougher because of a solid Ohio program and the UofL game.