Mark Stoops, the longest tenured college football coach in the SEC, got his biggest win with the Kentucky Wildcats. Here are only ones that come close

Mark Stoops just picked up the biggest win of his Kentucky tenure. Stoops’ Troops went into Oxford and stunned No. 6 Ole Miss with a 20-17 upset victory over Lane Kiffin’s Rebels. Ole Miss has been one of the most talked-about teams of 2024, but the Wildcats may have derailed the Lane Train’s path to the College Football Playoff.

College football — there is truly nothing else like it. In Week 2, Kentucky looked like the worst team in the SEC. One week later, the Wildcats had No. 1 Georgia on the ropes zg Kroger Field. However,

Mark Stoops and the Kentucky Wildcats, in their first road game of the college football season, upset Ole Miss for their first SEC win of the year.

Facing the same end zone where his Kentucky football team fumbled away a chance at a marquee victory two years ago at Ole Miss, Mark Stoops chose optimism. The situation seemed perfectly set up for another in a long line of Wildcat heartbreaks.

Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops had every reason to be thrilled after his Wildcats upset No. 6 Ole Miss on the road on Saturday, the highest-ranked win of his career in Lexington.

Five things you need to know from Kentucky’s 20-17 win against No. 6 Mississippi: 1. Mark Stoops’ epic fourth-down gamble. Many Kentucky backers were distraught when Kentucky, trailing No. 1 Georgia three weeks ago, punted on fourth-and-8 from the Bulldogs 47-yard line with 2:58 left in the game.

Just a few weeks ago, analysts and fans across the country criticized Mark Stoops for being conservative as Kentucky fell short in an upset bid of then No. 1 Georgia. Down just one point, he made the decision for the Wildcats to punt it on 4th-and-8 in Georgia territory with three minutes to play.