Kentucky vs. Miami

Kentucky and Miami have 8 meetings on file, the first in 1948; Kentucky leads the series 5–⁠3 in the games on file. Over the last 8 meetings it’s Kentucky 5–⁠3, and Miami has won the last 3.

Kentucky wins
5
Miami wins
3
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1948
Longest streak
5 Kentucky
Current streak
3 Miami
Last 10 meetings
Kentucky 5–⁠3
Most recent
1963

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s2–⁠0
1950s3–⁠0
1960s0–⁠3
Both ranked
1 meeting: Kentucky 1, Miami 0
Average margin
17 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Kentucky
1–⁠2 Kentucky’s record at home
At Miami
1–⁠4 Miami’s record at home
Shutouts
2

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Kentucky’s biggest win1951: Kentucky 32, Miami 0by 32 points
  2. Miami’s biggest win1962: Miami 25, Kentucky 17by 8 points
  3. Ranked showdown1951: Kentucky 32, Miami 0No. 19 Miami at No. 14 Kentucky

Coach against coach

YearsKentuckySeriesMiami
1948–⁠1952Bear Bryant4–⁠0Andy Gustafson

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Kentucky’s side (Bryant 4–⁠0 against Gustafson). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Kentucky and Miami, 1948 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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 1949 game: Bowls Continued From Page A-15.) by Tulane's defeat, one of the finest football teams available.

    1949 · Evening star, Nov 28, 1949

  • The Evening star's story of the 1952 game: Miami Upset as Kentucky Moves End 10 Quarterback

    1952 · Evening star, Nov 1, 1952

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, 1963Miami 20, Kentucky 14at Kentucky
Nov 2, 1962Miami 25, Kentucky 17at Miami
Sep 23, 1961Miami 14, Kentucky 7at Kentucky
Oct 30, 1959Kentucky 22, Miami 3at Miami
Oct 31, 1952Kentucky 29, Miami 0at Miami
Nov 3, 195114Kentucky 32, 19Miami 0at Kentucky
Nov 25, 194920Kentucky 21, Miami 6at Miami
Nov 26, 1948Kentucky 25, Miami 5at Miami

Every game is listed as played on the field.