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The Kentucky Wildcats will once again be tested in their SEC schedule, drawing four teams ranked in the Associated Press Preseason Top 25 on their 2014 schedule.
The Cats will play three ranked SEC East opponents – No. 9 South Carolina, No. 12 Georgia and No. 24 Missouri – as well as No. 13 LSU as its rotating cross-divisional game.
Kentucky will have to travel for two of the four games. The Cats will head to Baton Rouge for a game against LSU on October 18, and will hit the road again two weeks later to take on Missouri in Columbia on November 1.
UK will host games against South Carolina on October 4 and Georgia on November 8.
The Cats will also travel to take on Louisville at the end of the season for the first time, but the Cardinals missed the AP’s preseason rankings for the first time since 2011.
A former newspaper reporter who has roamed the southeastern United States for years covering football and eating way too many barbecue ribs, if there is such a thing.