Kentucky vs. VMI

Kentucky and VMI have 14 meetings on file, the first in 1921; Kentucky leads the series 12–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Kentucky 10–⁠0, and Kentucky has won the last 10.

Kentucky wins
12
VMI wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1921
Longest streak
10 Kentucky
Current streak
10 Kentucky
Last 10 meetings
Kentucky 10–⁠0
Most recent
1944

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1920s5–⁠2
1930s6–⁠0
1940s1–⁠0
Average margin
16.1 points; 5 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Kentucky
10–⁠1 Kentucky’s record at home
At VMI
1–⁠2 VMI’s record at home
Shutouts
6

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Kentucky’s biggest win1936: Kentucky 38, VMI 0by 38 points
  2. VMI’s biggest win1924: VMI 10, Kentucky 3by 7 points

Coach against coach

YearsKentuckySeriesVMI
1924–⁠1926Fred Murphy1–⁠2Blandy Clarkson
1927–⁠1933Harry Gamage7–⁠0W.C. Raftery

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Kentucky’s side (Murphy 1–⁠2 against Clarkson). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Kentucky and VMI, 1921 on13001500170019401960198020002020

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 1925 game: v. N. !. IS DEFEATED BY KENTUCKY, 7 TO 0

    1925 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 15, 1925

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1939 game: FOOTBALL SCORES

    1939 · The Daily Alaska empire, Oct 2, 1939

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

Oct 20, 1944Kentucky 26, VMI 2at Kentucky
Sep 30, 1939Kentucky 21, VMI 0at Kentucky
Oct 3, 1936Kentucky 38, VMI 0at Kentucky
Nov 11, 1933Kentucky 21, VMI 6at Kentucky
Sep 24, 1932Kentucky 23, VMI 0at Kentucky
Nov 14, 1931Kentucky 20, VMI 12at VMI
Nov 15, 1930Kentucky 26, VMI 0at Kentucky
Nov 16, 1929Kentucky 23, VMI 12at VMI
Nov 17, 1928Kentucky 18, VMI 6at Kentucky
Nov 12, 1927Kentucky 25, VMI 0at Kentucky
Nov 13, 1926VMI 10, Kentucky 9at VMI
Nov 14, 1925Kentucky 7, VMI 0at Kentucky
Nov 15, 1924VMI 10, Kentucky 3at Kentucky
Nov 12, 1921Kentucky 14, VMI 7at Kentucky

Every game is listed as played on the field.