Kentucky vs. Memphis

Kentucky and Memphis have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1953; Kentucky leads the series 4–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Kentucky 4–⁠0, and Kentucky has won the last 4.

Kentucky wins
4
Memphis wins
0
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1953
Longest streak
4 Kentucky
Current streak
4 Kentucky
Last 10 meetings
Kentucky 4–⁠0
Most recent
1957

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s4–⁠0
Average margin
29.8 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Kentucky
4–⁠0 Kentucky’s record at home

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Kentucky and Memphis, 1953 on1300150017001960197019801990200020102020

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 Evening star's story of the 1953 game

    1953 · Evening star, Nov 15, 1953

  • The Evening star's story of the 1957 game: Kentucky Gets First Victory

    1957 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 3, 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

Nov 2, 1957Kentucky 53, Memphis 7at Kentucky
Nov 12, 1955Kentucky 41, Memphis 7at Kentucky
Nov 13, 1954Kentucky 33, Memphis 7at Kentucky
Nov 14, 195313Kentucky 20, Memphis 7at Kentucky

Every game is listed as played on the field.