Regular season ·

Kentucky beat Louisville

No. 17 Kentucky9-356
Louisville2-1010Final
Sat, Nov 24 · Cardinal Stadium, Louisville, Ky. · Crowd 49,988 · 52°, fairESPN2

Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.

No. 17 Kentucky beat Louisville by 46 points.

How the game turned

Kentucky aheadLouisville ahead
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Q1 9:03 Kentucky 7, Louisville 0

Kentucky 92% to win

Snell 7-yd TD run, Kentucky goes ahead 7-0

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 9:03 · Kentucky 7, Louisville 0Kentucky's win chance rose from 88% to 92%.Snell 7-yd TD run, Kentucky goes ahead 7-0

Kentucky was never below a 83 percent chance to win. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.

How the lead changed

Kentucky led after every score.

The 46-point margin is the largest in this series since 1970 in our games data, 25 meetings in all.

What happened next

  1. Louisville finished the 2018 season 2-10.

  2. Kentucky's next game: W 27-24 vs Penn State in the VRBO Citrus Bowl, Jan 1

    38 days later

  3. Louisville's first game of the 2019 season: L 17-35 vs Notre Dame, Sep 2, 2019

    about 9 months later

  4. The teams' next meeting after Nov 24, 2018: Kentucky 45, Louisville 13, Nov 30, 2019

    about 12 months later

Related pages

Scores, dates and the stage: ESPN. Win chance: our curve from play-by-play; the turn is its largest one-play change that moved with the score.

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