Kentucky vs. Texas
Kentucky and Texas have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1951; Texas leads the series 3–0 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Texas 3–0, and Texas has won the last 3. Share
2027 at Texas; 2029 at Kentucky. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).
- Kentucky wins
- 0
- Texas wins
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1951
- Longest streak
- 3 Texas
- Current streak
- 3 Texas
- Last 10 meetings
- Texas 3–0
- Most recent
- 2025
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 7 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Kentucky
- 0–1 Kentucky’s record at home
- At Texas
- 2–0 Texas’s record at home
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Both programs through the years
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

1951 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 24, 1951
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.
On television
| 2025 | ESPN | 2.6 million viewers |
Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.
Every game
| Oct 18, 2025 | 21Texas 16, Kentucky 13 | at Kentucky | ||
| Nov 23, 2024 | 3Texas 31, Kentucky 14 | at Texas | ||
| Sep 22, 1951 | Texas 7, Kentucky 6 | at Texas |
Every game is listed as played on the field.