​Kentucky first began playing football in 1915, and two years later played Alabama for the first time and lost. The Wildcats have beaten the Tide twice since.Now that you comprehend the depth of this clearly delusional statement, it’s time to throw it out, anyway: Kentucky can beat Alabama on Saturday.And Will Stein knows it. COLLEGE FOOTBALL PICKS: Who wins Bama or UK, rest of Week 2 Top 25 games?WEEK 2 PRESSURE COOKER: Steve Sarkisian, Bryce Underwood feel the heatYou don’t go on the statewide Kentucky radio affiliate — one that blasts Big Blue from Hopkinsville to Ashland, and Bowling Green to Lexington — and demand fans get to the ballpark early and torment all things Alabama if you don’t at least see a lane that leads to the unthinkable. “We have to make this the loudest game in the history of Kentucky football,” Stein told Kentucky Sports Radio.To help pull off one of the biggest upsets in the history of Kentucky football.A couple of things are at play here for Stein heading into Week 2 of his first season at Kentucky. He has a team that can score points in bunches, and has a fanbase desperate for an Indiana rags-to-riches story.So he has been playing to it since Day 1. Kentucky and Indiana — long the basketball schools that used football as a way to tailgate and party until Midnight Madness signaled the beginning of college basketball season — have been in this misery together for more than a century. Indiana found its way out in two short seasons with coach Curt Cignetti, and Stein has Kentucky already believing it can do the same. It’s the NIL era of the game, and anything is possible, right? Kentucky spent a boatload of cash in the transfer portal, loaded up on experienced, impact players (who does that sound like) and got a talented quarterback with something to prove. The Wildcats have 13 new starters from the portal, all but one in his fourth or fifth season of college football. UK may as well have been copying the IU script word for word — including Stein’s declaration at SEC media day that he’s the reason the Wildcats will win.Cig couldn’t have said it better himself.THE SHOWDOWN: Arch Manning has the name. Now he needs the momentPUT UP OR SIT: Michigan football didn’t hire Kyle Whittingham to babysit a 5-star QBStein knows this is Alabama quarterback Keelon Russell’s first road start in the SEC, and only second start overall. Knows the Alabama offensive line is completely rebuilt, and that Michael Carroll — the only returning starter from last year’s line — is listed as doubtful for the game.If 65,000 Kentucky fans can make it nearly impossible for Russell and the line to hear and communicate, that goes a long way toward beating the Tide for the first time since 1997. That ’97 team under coach Hal Mumme couldn’t stop a nosebleed, but it could score points with Mumme and Mike Leach’s Air Raid offense, and quarterback Tim Couch’s big plays. Stein’s offense uses some principles of