Regular season ·

Kentucky beat Ole Miss

Kentucky3-220
No. 6 Ole Miss4-117Final
Sat, Sep 28 · Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Oxford, Miss. · 68°, cloudyABC

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

Kentucky had a 7 percent chance to win with 4:04 left in the 4th quarter, by our win chance curve, and won 20-17, September 28, 2024.

How the game turned

Kentucky aheadOle Miss aheadBiggest swingLow: 7%

Q3 0:10 Kentucky 13, Ole Miss 17

Kentucky 14% to win

Dart 48-yd TD pass to Harris, Ole Miss goes ahead 17-13

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 12:51 · Kentucky 0, Ole Miss 7Kentucky's win chance fell from 11% to 9%.Parrish 1-yd TD run, Ole Miss goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q2 0:27 · Kentucky 10, Ole Miss 7Vandagriff 5-yd TD pass to Key, Kentucky goes ahead 10-7
  3. 3Q3 6:31 · Kentucky 13, Ole Miss 10Kentucky's win chance rose from 28% to 36%.Raynor 48-yd field goal, Kentucky goes ahead 13-10
  4. 4Q3 0:10 · Kentucky 13, Ole Miss 17Kentucky's win chance fell from 44% to 14%.Dart 48-yd TD pass to Harris, Ole Miss goes ahead 17-13
  5. 5Q4 2:25 · Kentucky 20, Ole Miss 17Kentucky's win chance rose from 22% to 52%.Kattus 2-yd TD run, Kentucky goes ahead 20-17

Kentucky's lowest chance to win was 7 percent. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.

The biggest swing

With 0:10 left in the 3rd quarter, Ole Miss's chance to win went from 56 percent to 87 percent when Ole Miss scored a touchdown.

The score went from Kentucky 13, Ole Miss 10 to Kentucky 13, Ole Miss 17.

The play: Dart 48-yd TD pass to Harris, Ole Miss goes ahead 17-13.

It was Kentucky's first win over Ole Miss since the 2011 season, after 3 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.

What happened next

  1. Ole Miss's next game: W 27-3 at South Carolina, Oct 5

    7 days later
  2. Kentucky's next game: L 13-20 vs Vanderbilt, Oct 12

    14 days later
  3. The teams' next meeting after Sep 28, 2024: Ole Miss 30, Kentucky 23, Sep 6, 2025

    about 11 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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