Auburn vs. Kentucky

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Auburn’s biggest win1969: Auburn 44, Kentucky 3by 41 points
2. Kentucky’s biggest win1964: Kentucky 20, Auburn 0by 20 points
3. Upset1961: Kentucky 14, Auburn 12Kentucky had a 28% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset2025: Kentucky 10, Auburn 3Kentucky had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset2009: Kentucky 21, Auburn 14Kentucky had a 31% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown2020: Auburn 29, Kentucky 13No. 23 Kentucky at No. 8 Auburn

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Auburn’s side (Jordan 5–⁠2–⁠1 against Collier). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1957 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 13, 1957

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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• Auburn vs. Georgia123 meetings, Auburn 53–⁠64–⁠6
• Auburn vs. Mississippi State97 meetings, Auburn 63–⁠31–⁠3
• Auburn vs. Georgia Tech86 meetings, Auburn 42–⁠41–⁠3
• Auburn vs. Florida86 meetings, Auburn 44–⁠40–⁠2
• Kentucky vs. Tennessee118 meetings, Kentucky 25–⁠84–⁠9
• Kentucky vs. Vanderbilt95 meetings, Kentucky 49–⁠42–⁠4
• Kentucky vs. Georgia79 meetings, Kentucky 12–⁠65–⁠2
• Kentucky vs. Florida76 meetings, Kentucky 22–⁠54