Georgetown (Kentucky) vs. Kentucky

Georgetown (Kentucky) and Kentucky first met in 1918 and have played 6 times; Kentucky leads the series 6–⁠0. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Kentucky 6–⁠0, and Kentucky has won the last 6.

Georgetown (Kentucky) wins
0
Kentucky wins
6
Ties
0
First meeting
1918
Longest streak
6 Kentucky
Current streak
6 Kentucky
Last 10 meetings
Kentucky 6–⁠0
Most recent
1924

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s0–⁠2
1920s0–⁠4
Average margin
29 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Georgetown (Kentucky)
0–⁠2 Georgetown (Kentucky)‘s record at home
At Kentucky
4–⁠0 Kentucky’s record at home
Shutouts
4

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Kentucky’s biggest win1924: Kentucky 42, Georgetown (Kentucky) 0by 42 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Georgetown (Kentucky) and Kentucky, 1918 on1300150017001920192519301935

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 Bourbon news's story of the 1922 game: SATURDAYS FOOTBALL RESULTS

    1922 · The Bourbon news, Paris, Ky., Oct 24, 1922

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 11, 1924Kentucky 42, Georgetown (Kentucky) 0at Kentucky
Oct 27, 1923Kentucky 35, Georgetown (Kentucky) 0at Kentucky
Oct 21, 1922Kentucky 40, Georgetown (Kentucky) 6at Georgetown (Kentucky)
Oct 22, 1921Kentucky 33, Georgetown (Kentucky) 0at Kentucky
Oct 4, 1919Kentucky 12, Georgetown (Kentucky) 0at Kentucky
Nov 9, 1918Kentucky 21, Georgetown (Kentucky) 3at Georgetown (Kentucky)

Every game is listed as played on the field.