6. Kentucky
Coach: Mark Stoops (first year)
Last year's record: 2-10
Winning seasons this millennium: 5
Why this is a bad job: It's tough being a bad football team at a storied basketball school in a hoops-mad state. It's even tougher when that bad football team plays in the SEC. The Wildcats haven't won an SEC title since 1976 and their last year with a winning conference mark was 1977. There have been some winning records, most notably under Rich Brooks, who produced back-to-back 8-5 finishes and bowl wins in 2006 and 2007. That shows a really good coach, as Brooks undoubtedly is, can produce a winning record in Lexington, particularly with a favorable nonconference slate. But being competitive in the SEC is another matter -- see finishing with two or fewer conference wins in nine of the past 13 years. The Wildcats were ranked for eight weeks in 2007, in large part due to a 5-0 start. Their last AP ranking before that? 1984. Finally, the Wildcats played in front of an average of 49,691 fans last year, which was only 73.5 percent of capacity at Commonwealth Stadium, by far the worst percentage in the SEC and seventh worst among FBS teams.
