Kentucky vs. Mississippi State

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

1. Kentucky’s biggest win1973: Kentucky 42, Mississippi State 14by 28 points
2. Mississippi State’s biggest win1994: Mississippi State 47, Kentucky 7by 40 points
3. Upset2007: Mississippi State 31, Kentucky 14Mississippi State had a 24% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1973: Kentucky 42, Mississippi State 14Kentucky had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset2009: Mississippi State 31, Kentucky 24Mississippi State had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown2022: Kentucky 27, Mississippi State 17No. 16 Mississippi State at No. 22 Kentucky

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Kentucky’s side (Curci 2–⁠1 against Tyler). 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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  1944 · The Ypsilanti daily press, Ypsilanti, Mich., Nov 6, 1944

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  1950 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 14, 1950

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  1952 · The Key West citizen. (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, Florida, Oct 22, 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 is listed as played on the field; a game one side later forfeited is marked “forfeited”; 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
• Mississippi State vs. Ole Miss119 meetings, Mississippi State 47–⁠67–⁠5
• Mississippi State vs. LSU115 meetings, Mississippi State 37–⁠75–⁠3
• Mississippi State vs. Alabama107 meetings, Mississippi State 17–⁠87–⁠3
• Mississippi State vs. Auburn97 meetings, Mississippi State 31–⁠63–⁠3