Kentucky vs. TCU

Kentucky won their only meeting, in 1951.

Kentucky wins
1
TCU wins
0
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1951
Longest streak
1 Kentucky
Current streak
1 Kentucky
Last 10 meetings
Kentucky 1–⁠0
Most recent
1951

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Kentucky and TCU, 1951 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.

Stars of the series

Named most valuable

Emery Clark Kentucky1951
Ray Correll Kentucky1951
Babe Parilli Kentucky1951
Keith Flowers TCU1951

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1951 game: Kentucky Defense-ond PoriIE Figure in Cotton Bowl Triumph

    1951 · Evening star, Jan 2, 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

Jan 1, 195217Kentucky 20, 11TCU 7Neutral siteCotton Bowl

Every game is listed as played on the field.