LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB). — Mark Stoops didn’t give a long answer. In fact, he barely gave one at all.

Asked why redshirt freshman Cutter Boley was listed first at quarterback on Kentucky’s latest depth chart, Stoops simply said:

“It is what it is.”

In coach-speak, that’s code for: You’re seeing what I’m seeing.

And what we’re seeing is this: Ready or not, Kentucky’s show is going on the road, at night, in the SEC — with a redshirt freshman quarterback making his first league start. But there's some optimism about it all.

Boley, a Lexington Christian grad who dreamed of this kind of opportunity, is walking into Williams-Brice Stadium, where the noise doesn’t just deaden your hearing, it loosens your dental work.

But South Carolina’s early-season struggles have changed the temperature

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