With a bye week following a triple-overtime loss at Florida, Kentucky has had ample time to suffer a lapse in focus.Just two days before a Saturday matchup with Vanderbilt, the Wildcats have shown no signs of any such lapse.”So far, so good,” head coach Mark Stoops said. “It’s been a good week of practice. We had a good Thursday today. Guys seemed to be pretty locked in, energetic. So, looking forward to a good game here this weekend.”If anything, the Cats have gone the other way and ramped up the intensity before the Commodores come to town.”Our coaches have been adamant about just handling our business and doing more this week, being more locked in, spending some extra time around here studying film and doing the little things,” Stoops said. “So it seems like they’ve been very good around here. I hope they are when they leave. We have no reason but to be locked in and hungry for this game.”UK’s practice on Thursday was a light one, continuing the coaching staff’s new game-week plan of holding a walkthrough and meetings two days before game day and turning up the speed again on Friday. The change was designed to position the Cats to play faster on game day and to this point Stoops has been pleased with the results.”It seemed to work so far, it really has,” Stoops said. “We’ll see. Each week is a different test, but I’ve been pleased. I’ve felt like we played fast and that was the objective. I felt like we were fresh and played fast in each game. In particular, going down to the Swamp with a big SEC test and playing in the three overtimes. I feel like it’s given us what we want.”

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