Kentucky at Tennessee
Saturday, November 23, 1940 Share
No. 6 Tennessee beat Kentucky 33–0. It was their 36th meeting; after it, Tennessee led the series 17–10–6 in the games on file.
FinalHigh 69°F, low 49°FAttendance 25,000
In the newspapers
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The Daily Alaska empire, November 25, 1940, page 5 (results column)
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[E3}!3|]|| The following are final scores Of football games played last Satur- day afternoon: Harvard 28; Yale 0. Dartmouth 20; Brown 6. Marquette 0; Detroit l9. Georgetown G. George Washing ton 0. North Carolina State 6; Duke 42. Michigan 40; Ohio State 0. West Virginia 0; Michigan State F. Auburn T; Boston College 33. Army l9; Princeton 26. West Maryland 0; Boston Uni- yerSity 37. Penn State 2; Pittsburgh 20. Colgate IT; Columbia 20 Lehigh 0; Lafayette 46. Pennsylvania P; Cornell 20. Clemson l3; Furman ‘. Indiana 3; Purdue o. Manhattan 25; Holy Cross 33. Indiana ‘; Iowa l8. Notfe Dame G; Northwestern 20. Kentucky 0; Tennessee 33. Creighton IA; Drake 0. Minnesota p; Wisconsin 13. Mississippi State 19 Mississippi 0. University Of Washington 4l; UCLA O. Washington State 14; Gonzaga :. Montana 0; Portland 0. Brigham Young 30 Colorado State 13
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)
Tennessee 82% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Kentucky–Tennessee gameOfficially, Tennessee leads 85–26–9; as played, 84–25–9 in the 118 games on file; the official count covers all 121 meetings, counting the 85 since this game.
| 2025 | Tennessee 56, Kentucky 34 | |
| 2024 | Tennessee 28, Kentucky 18 | |
| 2023 | Tennessee 33, Kentucky 27 | |
| 2022 | Tennessee 44, Kentucky 6 | |
| 2021 | Tennessee 45, Kentucky 42 | |
| 2020 | Kentucky 34, Tennessee 7 |
Around this game
Kentucky
- Next gamevs. Virginia TechSept. 27, 1941
- SeasonKentucky in 1940
- ProgramKentucky history and records
Tennessee
- Next gameat VanderbiltNov. 30, 1940
- SeasonTennessee in 1940
- ProgramTennessee history and records

