Kentucky at Florida

Saturday, October 23, 1926

Kentucky beat Florida 18–⁠13. It was their second meeting; after it, Kentucky led the series 2–⁠0 as played.

AwayKentucky2–⁠6–⁠1 in 1926
18
HomeFlorida2–⁠6–⁠2 in 1926
13

FinalHigh 87°F, low 59°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, October 25, 1926, page 20 (results column)

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    hern gridiron championship. Alabama to 2-to-0 score after the latter, favored to take its third sue cessive conference title. had crushed three strong contenders for the cham. pionship. Virginia Polytechnic Institute retanned it’s runner-up position to Ala bama by winning from Virginia, to 0, and Tennessee’s standing was not affected by its 30-to-7 victory over Center, a non-conference eleven. Georgia Tech came back from its slump of the previous week and it’s 21-to-0 beating at the hands of Ala bama by winning from Washington and Lee, 19 to Z. Vanderbilt’s CommOdores conquer ed Georgia by a 14-to-13 score; Auburn defeated Tulane, 2 to 0, and the Mississippi Aggies took 7-to-6 contest from Louisiana State. In other conference encounters North Carolina lost to Maryland, IA to 6; Kentucky won from Florida, 18 to 13. and Virginia Military Institute defeated North Carolina State. to 0. South Carolina defeated Clemson, “a to 0, in a mid-week game last Thursday. Mississippi lost to Drake University of the North Central Conference by a S3-to-15 score

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Florida 62% to win. Kentucky won as Elo’s underdog.

Officially, Florida leads 54–⁠21; as played, 54–⁠22 in 76 meetings, counting the 74 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Kentucky 38, Florida 7
2024Florida 48, Kentucky 20
2023Kentucky 33, Florida 14
2022Kentucky 26, Florida 16
2021Kentucky 20, Florida 13
2020Florida 34, Kentucky 10

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