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.

Scheduled 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

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s0–⁠1
2020s0–⁠2
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

End-of-season Elo ratings of Kentucky and Texas, 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.

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1951 game: Coaches in New Jobs Shine as 13 Direct Teams 10 Victory

    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

2025ESPN2.6 million viewers

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game

Oct 18, 202521Texas 16, Kentucky 13at Kentucky
Nov 23, 20243Texas 31, Kentucky 14at Texas
Sep 22, 1951Texas 7, Kentucky 6at Texas

Every game is listed as played on the field.