It's NFL Draft Week: Thursday night through Saturday in Kansas City.

Mike Wright ran 59 yards for a touchdown and completed an 8-yard touchdown pass to Will Sheppard with 32 seconds left for a 24-21 win over Kentucky Saturday, snapping a 26-game Southeastern Conference losing streak.

A month ago, the Kentucky football team was ranked in the top 10 in the Associated Press poll angling for a 10-win season.

One of the most under-appreciated things that Mark Stoops has achieved with the Kentucky football program is keeping South Carolina, Missouri and Vanderbilt buried in the rear-view mirror.

Kentucky takes its No. 7 national ranking and unbeaten record into Oxford to face No. 14 Ole Miss at noon Saturday, and the Wildcats — despite having their highest national ranking in 40 years — find themselves looking for respect.

But will it be enough for a Kentucky line that failed to establish dominance against a couple of MAC opponents, and that has given up 16 sacks this season – more than all but 2 programs in FBS?

 Kentucky passed the opening quiz, dominating Miami (Ohio), 37-13, at Kroger Field Saturday night.

This is where we're at with the University of Kentucky football program.

This will be the season when Mark Stoops moves past Bear Bryant as the winningest coach in the history of Kentucky football.