Kentucky vs. Louisville

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

1. Kentucky’s biggest win1922: Kentucky 73, Louisville 0by 73 points
2. Louisville’s biggest win2025: Louisville 41, Kentucky 0by 41 points
3. Upset2016: Kentucky 41, Louisville 38Kentucky had a 17% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset2002: Kentucky 22, Louisville 17Kentucky had a 18% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset2023: Kentucky 38, Louisville 31Kentucky had a 26% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Kentucky’s side (Mumme 1–⁠2 against Smith). 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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  1915 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 7, 1915

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; a win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”; the official series above counts them the NCAA’s way.

• 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
• Louisville vs. Cincinnati46 meetings, Louisville 23–⁠22–⁠1
• Louisville vs. Memphis41 meetings, Louisville 24–⁠17
• Louisville vs. Southern Miss26 meetings, Louisville 10–⁠15–⁠1
• Louisville vs. Tulsa26 meetings, Louisville 12–⁠14