Duke vs. Kentucky

Duke and Kentucky have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1930; Duke leads the series 4–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Duke 4–⁠0, and Duke has won the last 4.

Duke wins
4
Kentucky wins
0
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1930
Longest streak
4 Duke
Current streak
4 Duke
Last 10 meetings
Duke 4–⁠0
Most recent
1933

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s4–⁠0
Average margin
8.5 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Duke
2–⁠0 Duke’s record at home
At Kentucky
0–⁠2 Kentucky’s record at home
Shutouts
2

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

Coach against coach

YearsDukeSeriesKentucky
1931–⁠1933Wallace Wade3–⁠0Harry Gamage

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Duke’s side (Wade 3–⁠0 against Gamage). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Duke and Kentucky, 1930 on13001500170019401960198020002020

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.

From the newspapers

  • The The Waterbury Democrat's story of the 1933 game

    1933 · The Waterbury Democrat, Oct 30, 1933

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

Oct 28, 1933Duke 14, Kentucky 7at Kentucky
Nov 5, 1932Duke 13, Kentucky 0at Duke
Nov 7, 1931Duke 7, Kentucky 0at Kentucky
Nov 8, 1930Duke 14, Kentucky 7at Duke

Every game is listed as played on the field.