Spurrier also picked Florida to beat Kentucky and end the Wildcats’ three-game winning streak in the series.
Mark Stoops is in his 12th season as Kentucky Wildcats head coach.
In that time, he has beaten Florida four times, cemented Kentucky as, on occasion, the second or third-best team in the former SEC East, and led Kentucky to *two 10-win seasons.
He also is the winningest coach in Kentucky football history, surpassing Bear Bryant.
Don’t count Steve Spurrier among those overly impressed with what Stoops has done.
The Ol Ball Coach took a shot at Mark Stoops in an article from the Courier-Journal, saying that Stoops has done “not a great job, but a good job.
“Everybody says (coach Mark Stoops) has done a heck of a job there. So I guess 3-3 may be pretty good for (Kentucky), I don’t know,” Spurrier said.
“I think he’s doing a good job — not a great job, but a good job,” Spurrier said. “A ‘great job,’ you’re competing for divisions, this, that, and the other. But maybe Kentucky and South Carolina and those schools, if you can win more than you lose? That’s pretty good, pretty good.”
It also shouldn’t shock you that Spurrier picked Florida to beat Kentucky and end the Wildcats’ three-game winning streak over the Gators.
I would like to remind everyone, however, that Mark Stoops beat Steve Spurrier twice in his first three seasons as coach in Lexington. In fact, Stoops went 2-1 against Spurrier, and the second win, a road victory in Columbia, effectively ended Spurrier’s tenure as head coach of South Carolina.