Kentucky vs. Virginia Tech

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

1. Kentucky’s biggest win1977: Kentucky 32, Virginia Tech 0by 32 points
2. Virginia Tech’s biggest win1982: Virginia Tech 29, Kentucky 3by 26 points
3. Upset1969: Kentucky 7, Virginia Tech 6Kentucky had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Kentucky’s side (Bradshaw 1–⁠2 against Claiborne). 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). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

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  1941 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 29, 1941

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.

• 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
• Virginia Tech vs. Virginia101 meetings, Virginia Tech 62–⁠34–⁠5
• Virginia Tech vs. VMI75 meetings, Virginia Tech 47–⁠23–⁠5
• Virginia Tech vs. William & Mary64 meetings, Virginia Tech 42–⁠18–⁠4
• Virginia Tech vs. West Virginia54 meetings, Virginia Tech 23–⁠30–⁠1