What It Means to Wear Kentucky On Your Chest

This is what the Wildcats face every single game. It ain't easy.

Kentucky also faces a familiar obstacle. The opponent has circled the wagons and put maximum effort on beating the Cats.

"It's huge," Shelton said of the game. "It's all everybody's been talking about for probably three or four weeks. They don't worry about who we're playing. They want to know, 'What about the Kentucky game?' "

In today's case, UK faces the only SEC team with an unbeaten home record (13-0).

Then again, Kentucky snapped Alabama's school-record 28-game home winning streak in 2003, the last time the Cats played in Tuscaloosa.