Kentucky vs. Michigan State
Kentucky and Michigan State have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1944; the series is tied 2–2 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s even at 2–2, and Kentucky has won the last 2. Share
- Kentucky wins
- 2
- Michigan State wins
- 2
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1944
- Longest streak
- 2 Michigan State
- Current streak
- 2 Kentucky
- Last 10 meetings
- even at 2–2
- Most recent
- 1947
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 7.3 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Kentucky
- 1–1 Kentucky’s record at home
- At Michigan State
- 1–1 Michigan State’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 1
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Both programs through the years
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
1944 · The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., Oct 8, 1944
1946 · Evening star, Nov 3, 1946
1947 · Evening star, Oct 26, 1947
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 25, 1947 | 14Kentucky 7, Michigan State 6 | at Michigan State | ||
| Nov 2, 1946 | Kentucky 39, Michigan State 14 | at Kentucky | ||
| Oct 6, 1945 | Michigan State 7, Kentucky 6 | at Michigan State | ||
| Oct 7, 1944 | Michigan State 2, Kentucky 0 | at Kentucky |
Every game is listed as played on the field.