Quick starts, two games in, have become habit for Kentucky.The Wildcats outscored UT Martin and Ohio by a combined tally of 52-0 in the first half, shutting out back-to-back opponents before halftime for the first time in 26 years.Repeating the feat against an opponent UK hasn’t beaten in even longer is a tall order. That doesn’t mean the Cats won’t give it a shot against Florida.”I think it will be very challenging to jump out in front of them like we did the first two (games),” Mark Stoops said. “But that’s what we’re going to try to do.”The reality is that such a start is unlikely as a young UK team ventures into Southeastern Conference play for the first time at 7:30 p.m. ET on Saturday. Making things even tougher is that the Cats will do it in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, better known as the Swamp, against a Florida team always among the nation’s most talented.All that makes for a different kind of test for Kentucky this weekend in Gainesville, Fla.”We all know we’re in for a higher level of competition, and we’re excited about that,” Stoops said. “The players and coaches will be excited. We’ll see where we’re at this week.”The Cats have indeed been excited in practice all week, sustaining and even building on the energy that has carried them to a 2-0 start entering a trip to face the Gators (1-0).”It’s our first big test,” quarterback Patrick Towles said. “It’s our first real test this year and this is why you sign up to come to Kentucky to play these kinds of teams in these kinds of atmospheres, so you can tell everybody’s got a little extra this week going down there.”Adding fuel to the fire, at least in theory, are the 16 players on UK’s roster from the Sunshine State. Even though sophomore running back Jojo Kemp has friends on the Florida team and a big contingent of family members planning to come on Saturday, he says the extra juice isn’t about going home.”It’s not because we’re from Florida,” Kemp said. “It’s really because it’s an SEC team and just because it’s Florida and the streak. A lot of guys just want to really focus on changing the program and like they’re next up, so why not Florida to do it? They’re next. We’re going to out there and play our best game and hopefully we come out with a win.”The streak Kemp refers to, of course, is the 28 years UK has gone without a win over the Gators. There isn’t a current Wildcat who was even alive when Kentucky beat Florida 10-3 in 1986, but Towles is aware of the drought and admits he thinks about what it would be like to put an end to it. At the same time, he knows history won’t matter much after the opening kickoff.”I saw somewhere, it’s the 2014 Wildcats versus the 2014 Gators, we’re not playing Tim Tebow and Percy Harvin and those guys,” Towles said. “They’ve got a really good team. We’re excited about going down there and giving them all we’ve got.”In making his first road start, Towles will look to find holes in a Florida defense with a well-established reputation under head coach Will Muschamp.”Florida is Florida,” offensive coordinator Neal Brown said. “The strength of their defense is speed.”Running a new scheme under former Duke offensive coordinator Kurt Roper, the same can be said of the Gators on offense. Florida has moved to a fast-paced spread attack and it worked to the tune of 65 points and 655 yards in a season-opening win over Eastern Michigan. Quarterback Jeff Driskel, a year removed from a broken leg that ended his 2013 season early, is leading the way. “I think they’re much different offensively this year,” Stoops said. “They got some weapons and they got some real speed outside, a great scheme. You know, I think they’re much improved offensively.”Florida ran 86 plays against Eastern Michigan, playing with the kind of pace Brown looks for in his own Air Raid offense. Coping with it won’t be easy, but UK’s defense has racked up some applicable experience in practice.”Going against our offense, being a tempo offense, has helped us a lot conditioning wise and getting us ready for all the offenses in the SEC that will go no huddle,” Bud Dupree said. “The way you stop that, you just have to cut out the big plays first and then they’ll slow down.”That might be easier said than done, but the attitude reflects confidence the Cats are carrying with them to Florida. They get that they aren’t a finished product. They understand how intimidating the Swamp is. They know how athletic the Gators are. They also believe all of that can be overcome if they do what they’re supposed to.”We have to play well on all sides to have a chance to win,” Stoops said. “We’re not dominant enough on offense or dominant enough on defense. When we put it all together, we’re good enough to play with anybody. We just have to play well.”