Kentucky vs. Rice

Kentucky and Rice first met in 1953 and have played 2 times; Kentucky leads the series 2–⁠0. Over the last 2 meetings it’s Kentucky 2–⁠0, and Kentucky has won the last 2.

Kentucky wins
2
Rice wins
0
Ties
0
First meeting
1953
Longest streak
2 Kentucky
Current streak
2 Kentucky
Last 10 meetings
Kentucky 2–⁠0
Most recent
1955

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Kentucky and Rice, 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: Kentucky Beats Rice On Pass Interception

    1953 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 1, 1953

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 29, 1955Kentucky 20, Rice 16at Kentucky
Oct 31, 195319Kentucky 19, 12Rice 13at Rice

Every game is listed as played on the field.