Kentucky vs. Ohio State

Kentucky and Ohio State have 2 meetings on file, the first in 1919; Ohio State leads the series 2–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 2 meetings it’s Ohio State 2–⁠0, and Ohio State has won the last 2.

Kentucky wins
0
Ohio State wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1919
Longest streak
2 Ohio State
Current streak
2 Ohio State
Last 10 meetings
Ohio State 2–⁠0
Most recent
1935

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Kentucky and Ohio State, 1919 on1300150017001900192019401960198020002020

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 Omaha daily bee's story of the 1919 game: Ohio State Blanks Kentucky University and Scores 49

    1919 · Omaha daily bee, Nebraska, Oct 19, 1919

  • The Evening star's story of the 1935 game: OHIO STATE HEADS KENTUCKY, 1906 Record Buckeye Crowd of 56,686 Sees Team Fail to Reveal Class.

    1935 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 6, 1935

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 5, 1935Ohio State 19, Kentucky 6at Ohio State
Oct 18, 1919Ohio State 49, Kentucky 0at Ohio State

Every game is listed as played on the field.