Kentucky vs. South Carolina

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

1. Kentucky’s biggest win2020: Kentucky 41, South Carolina 18by 23 points
2. South Carolina’s biggest win2011: South Carolina 54, Kentucky 3by 51 points
3. Upset2015: Kentucky 26, South Carolina 22Kentucky had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1993: Kentucky 21, South Carolina 17Kentucky had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset2022: South Carolina 24, Kentucky 14South Carolina had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown2007: South Carolina 38, Kentucky 23No. 8 Kentucky at No. 11 South Carolina

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Kentucky’s side (Curry 1–⁠2 against Scott). 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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  1937 · The Bismarck tribune, Nov 8, 1937

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 win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”; 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
• South Carolina vs. Clemson117 meetings, South Carolina 43–⁠70–⁠4
• South Carolina vs. Georgia73 meetings, South Carolina 19–⁠52–⁠2
• South Carolina vs. North Carolina60 meetings, South Carolina 20–⁠36–⁠4
• South Carolina vs. Wake Forest56 meetings, South Carolina 34–⁠20–⁠2