Kentucky-Louisville rivalry
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Comparison of the two universities
School University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky...

 
University of Louisville
University of Louisville
The University of Louisville is a public university in Louisville, Kentucky. When founded in 1798, it was the first city-owned public university in the United States and one of the first universities chartered west of the Allegheny Mountains. The university is mandated by the Kentucky General...

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Ownership Commonwealth of Kentucky
Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...

 
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...

Location Lexington, KY
Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 63rd largest in the US. Known as the "Thoroughbred City" and the "Horse Capital of the World", it is located in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass region...

 
Louisville, KY
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

Conference Southeastern
Southeastern Conference
The Southeastern Conference is an American college athletic conference that operates in the southeastern part of the United States. It is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama...

 
Big East
Students 27,209 21,841
School Colors Blue
Blue
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 & White
White
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Red
Red
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 & Black
Black
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Nickname Wildcats
Kentucky Wildcats
The Kentucky Wildcats are the men's and women's intercollegiate athletic squads of the University of Kentucky , a founding member of the Southeastern Conference...

 
Cardinals
Louisville Cardinals
The Louisville Cardinals are the athletic teams representing the University of Louisville. A member of the Big East Conference since 2005, they are known nationally as traditional powers in men's basketball, women's volleyball, and dance team...

Mascot(s) Blue, The Wildcat, Scratch Cardinal Bird
Cardinal Bird (mascot)
The Cardinal Bird is the mascot of the University of Louisville. The Cardinal was chosen as the mascot after 1913. It was selected the cardinal bird because it is the state bird of Kentucky. The school colors of black and red were adopted later....

Football Stadium Commonwealth Stadium
Commonwealth Stadium (Kentucky)
Commonwealth Stadium is the name of a stadium in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. This stadium, named for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is located on the campus of the University of Kentucky and is the home field for the school's football team, replacing the smaller Stoll Field/McLean Stadium. The field...

 
Papa John's Cardinal Stadium
Papa John's Cardinal Stadium
Papa John's Cardinal Stadium is a football stadium located in Louisville, Kentucky, USA and serves as the home of the University of Louisville football program. It opened in 1998, making it the second-to-last football stadium in NCAA Division I-A to open in the 20th century, with SMU's Gerald J....

Basketball Arena Rupp Arena
Rupp Arena
Rupp Arena is an arena located in downtown Lexington, Kentucky, U.S. Since its opening in 1976, it has been the centerpiece of Lexington Center, a convention and shopping facility owned by an arm of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, and serves as home court to the University of...

 (men)
Memorial Coliseum (women)
KFC Yum! Center
KFC Yum! Center
The KFC Yum! Center is a US $238 million, 22,000-seat basketball and multipurpose arena that opened on October 10, 2010, on the Ohio River waterfront in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, on Main Street between Second and Third Streets. The project is part of a $450 million project that includes...



The Kentucky Wildcats
Kentucky Wildcats
The Kentucky Wildcats are the men's and women's intercollegiate athletic squads of the University of Kentucky , a founding member of the Southeastern Conference...

 and Louisville Cardinals
Louisville Cardinals
The Louisville Cardinals are the athletic teams representing the University of Louisville. A member of the Big East Conference since 2005, they are known nationally as traditional powers in men's basketball, women's volleyball, and dance team...

, athletic programs for the most prominent universities in Kentucky
Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...

, are intense sport rivals. The teams first played each other in 1912 (football) and 1913 (basketball) but both rivalries were largely dormant for several decades until the teams started playing regularly in the 1980s and 1990s. Historically, basketball has been the more important of the two rivalries but the football rivalry has also become more heated in recent years. The rivalry became even more intense after Rick Pitino
Rick Pitino
Rick Pitino is an American basketball coach. Since 2001, he has been the head coach at the University of Louisville. He has also served as head coach at Boston University, Providence College and the University of Kentucky, leading that program to the NCAA championship in 1996...

, former head basketball coach for Kentucky, became the coach of Louisville. The yearly men's basketball
College basketball
College basketball most often refers to the USA basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Basketball in the NCAA is divided into three divisions: Division I, Division II and Division III....

 game is called the Battle for the Bluegrass and the yearly football
College football
College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

 game is played for the Governor's Cup trophy
Governor's Cup (Kentucky)
The Governor's Cup is a trophy awarded to the victor of the annual college football game between the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville; it is also used as a reference to the rivalry itself. Though the teams first played in 1912 the Governor's Cup has been awarded every year...

. Many of the schools' other sports teams also play annually despite the fact that the teams are not in the same conference
Athletic conference
An athletic conference is a collection of sports teams, playing competitively against each other at the professional, collegiate, or high school level. In many cases conferences are subdivided into smaller and smaller divisions, with the best teams competing at successively higher levels...

.

Background

The University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky...

 and the University of Louisville
University of Louisville
The University of Louisville is a public university in Louisville, Kentucky. When founded in 1798, it was the first city-owned public university in the United States and one of the first universities chartered west of the Allegheny Mountains. The university is mandated by the Kentucky General...

 are the two largest universities in the state of Kentucky, the Wildcats being members of the Southeastern Conference
Southeastern Conference
The Southeastern Conference is an American college athletic conference that operates in the southeastern part of the United States. It is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama...

 and the Cardinals being members of the Big East conference.

The University of Louisville was founded in 1798 as a municipally supported institution by the combination of two medical schools and a newly established law school
Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
The Louis D. Brandeis School of Law is the law school of the University of Louisville. Established in 1846, it is the oldest law school in Kentucky and the fifth oldest in the country in continuous operation. The law school is named after Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, who served on the Supreme...

. It didn't join the state university system until 1970.

The University of Kentucky grew out of three prior institutions. Founded in 1780, Transylvania Seminary merged with Bacon College, later known as Kentucky University, in 1865. Due to concerns regarding a religious entity receiving a land grant under the Morrill Act, the university's agricultural and mechanical college was spun off as Kentucky A&M in 1878 as an independent, state-run institution. Kentucky A&M is now known as the University of Kentucky. Lexington Theological Seminary traces its roots to Bacon College, and Kentucky University changed its name to that of its oldest entity, Transylvania University in 1908 to avoid confusion with the University of Kentucky.

Basketball


Battle for the Bluegrass (basketball)
Kentucky Wildcats Louisville Cardinals
Originated 1913
Continuity Continuous since 1983
Overall series leader Kentucky (28-14)
Modern series leader Kentucky (19-11)
Current champion Kentucky


Kentucky and Louisville first played against each other in 1913 but stopped playing each other in the 1920s. The rivalry was generally dormant with only occasional matchups until the teams met in the elite eight of the 1983 NCAA Tournament
1983 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
The 1983 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 52 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 2, 1983, and ended with the championship game on April 4 at The Pit, then officially known...

. Since that year, the rivalry has been renewed and the two teams have met each year, usually in late December or early January. Kentucky leads the all-time basketball series with Louisville, 28 games to 14, and leads the modern series seventeen to eleven. In four tournament meetings, the teams are tied at two games apiece.
Date Site Winning team Losing team Series Notes
1913-02-15 Lexington, KY
Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 63rd largest in the US. Known as the "Thoroughbred City" and the "Horse Capital of the World", it is located in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass region...

Kentucky       34 Louisville 10 UK 1-0
1914-02-07 Lexington, KY Kentucky 22 Louisville 17 UK 2-0
1914-03-03 Louisville, KY
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

Kentucky 26 Louisville 13 UK 3-0
1915-01-23 Lexington, KY Kentucky 18 Louisville 14 UK 4-0
1915-02-27 Louisville, KY Louisville 26 Kentucky        15 UK 4-1
1916-02-12 Lexington, KY Louisville 28 Kentucky 22 UK 4-2
1916-02-22 Louisville, KY Kentucky 32 Louisville 24 UK 5-2
1922-01-17 Louisville, KY Kentucky 38 Louisville 14 UK 6-2
1922-01-21 Lexington, KY Kentucky 29 Louisville 22 UK 7-2
1948-03-27 New York City, NY
New York City
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Kentucky 91 Louisville 57 UK 8-2
1951-03-20 Raleigh, NC
Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh is the capital and the second largest city in the state of North Carolina as well as the seat of Wake County. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city's 2010 population was 403,892, over an area of , making Raleigh...

Kentucky 79 Louisville 68 UK 9-2
1959-03-13 Evanston, IL
Evanston, Illinois
Evanston is a suburban municipality in Cook County, Illinois 12 miles north of downtown Chicago, bordering Chicago to the south, Skokie to the west, and Wilmette to the north, with an estimated population of 74,360 as of 2003. It is one of the North Shore communities that adjoin Lake Michigan...

Louisville 76 Kentucky 61 UK 9-3
1983-03-26† Knoxville, TN
Knoxville, Tennessee
Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, U.S.A., behind Memphis and Nashville, and is the county seat of Knox County. It is the largest city in East Tennessee, and the second-largest city in the Appalachia region...

Louisville 80 Kentucky 68 UK 9-4
1983-11-26 Louisville, KY Kentucky 65 Louisville 44 UK 10-4
1984-03-22 Lexington, KY Kentucky 72 Louisville 67 UK 11-4
1984-12-15 Louisville, KY Louisville 71 Kentucky 64 UK 11-5
1985-12-28 Lexington, KY Kentucky 69 Louisville 64 UK 12-5
1986-12-27 Louisville, KY Kentucky 85 Louisville 51 UK 13-5
1987-12-12 Lexington, KY Kentucky 76 Louisville 75 UK 14-5
1988-12-31 Louisville, KY Louisville 97 Kentucky 75 UK 14-6
1989-12-30 Lexington, KY Louisville 86 Kentucky 79 UK 14-7
1990-12-29 Louisville, KY Kentucky 93 Louisville 85 UK 15-7
1991-12-28 Lexington, KY Kentucky 103 Louisville 89 UK 16-7
1992-12-12 Louisville, KY Kentucky 88 Louisville 68 UK 17-7
1993-11-27 Lexington, KY Kentucky 78 Louisville 70 UK 18-7
1995-01-01 Louisville, KY Louisville 88 Kentucky 86 UK 18-8
1995-12-23 Lexington, KY Kentucky 89 Louisville 66 UK 19-8
1996-12-31 Louisville, KY Kentucky 74 Louisville 54 UK 20-8
1997-12-27 Lexington, KY Louisville 79 Kentucky 76 UK 20-9
1998-12-26 Louisville, KY Louisville 83 Kentucky 74  UK 20-10 
1999-12-18 Lexington, KY Kentucky 76 Louisville 46 UK 21-10
2001-01-02 Louisville, KY Kentucky 64 Louisville 62 UK 22-10
2001-12-29 Lexington, KY Kentucky 82 Louisville 62 UK 23-10
2002-12-28 Louisville, KY Louisville 81 Kentucky 63 UK 23-11
2003-12-27 Lexington, KY Louisville 65 Kentucky 56 UK 23-12
2004-12-18 Louisville, KY Kentucky 60 Louisville 58 UK 24-12
2005-12-17 Lexington, KY Kentucky 73 Louisville 61 UK 25-12
2006-12-16 Louisville, KY Kentucky 61 Louisville 49 UK 26-12
2008-01-05 Lexington, KY Louisville 89 Kentucky 75 UK 26-13
2009-01-04 Louisville, KY Louisville 74 Kentucky 71 UK 26-14
2010-01-03 Lexington, KY Kentucky 71 Louisville 62 UK 27-14 |
2010-12-31 Louisville, KY Kentucky 78 Louisville 63 UK 28-14 |


Kentucky victories are shaded ██ blue. Louisville victories shaded in ██ red. † indicates overtime. Numbers in parentheses indicate a team's Associated Press
Associated Press
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 Top 25 rank at the time of the games.

Football


Governor's Cup (football)
Kentucky Wildcats
Kentucky Wildcats football
The Kentucky Wildcats football team is a college football program that competes in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and the East Division of the Southeastern Conference.-History:Paul "Bear" Bryant Era...

Louisville Cardinals
Louisville Cardinals football
The Louisville Cardinals football team represents the University of Louisville in college football as a member of the Big East Conference. Howard Schnellenberger started the program's rise to relevancy after winning the Miami Hurricanes' first national championship...

Originated 1912
Next meeting 2012-09-01
Continuity Continuous since 1994
Overall series leader Kentucky (14-10)
Modern series leader Louisville (10-8)
Current champion Louisville


Kentucky
Kentucky Wildcats football
The Kentucky Wildcats football team is a college football program that competes in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and the East Division of the Southeastern Conference.-History:Paul "Bear" Bryant Era...

 and Louisville
Louisville Cardinals football
The Louisville Cardinals football team represents the University of Louisville in college football as a member of the Big East Conference. Howard Schnellenberger started the program's rise to relevancy after winning the Miami Hurricanes' first national championship...

 first played each other in football in 1912. Kentucky dominated six meetings between the teams from 1912 until 1924, holding Louisville scoreless in all six games, after which the teams stopped playing. As the basketball rivalry intensified, the two teams began playing annually in 1994 after a 70-year dormancy. Kentucky leads the all-time football series with Louisville, 14 games to ten. In the modern series, Louisville leads Kentucky, ten games to eight.
Date Site Winning team Losing team Series
1912-10-28  Lexington
Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 63rd largest in the US. Known as the "Thoroughbred City" and the "Horse Capital of the World", it is located in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass region...

 
Kentucky 41 Louisville 0 UK 1-0
1913-11-22 Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

Kentucky 20 Louisville 0 UK 2-0
1914-11-14 Lexington Kentucky 42 Louisville 0 UK 3-0
1915-11-06 Louisville Kentucky 15 Louisville 0 UK 4-0
1922-10-14 Lexington Kentucky 63 Louisville 0 UK 5-0
1924-10-04 Lexington Kentucky 29 Louisville 0 UK 6-0
1994-09-03 Lexington Kentucky 20 Louisville 14 UK 7-0
1995-09-02 Lexington Louisville    13 Kentucky 10 UK 7-1
1996-08-31 Lexington Louisville 38 Kentucky     14 UK 7-2
1997-08-30 Lexington Kentucky 38 Louisville 24 UK 8-2
1998-09-05 Louisville Kentucky 68 Louisville 34 UK 9-2
1999-09-04 Lexington Louisville 56 Kentucky 28 UK 9-3
2000-09-02† Louisville Louisville 40 Kentucky 34 UK 9-4
2001-09-01 Lexington Louisville 36 Kentucky 10 UK 9-5
2002-09-01 Louisville Kentucky 22 Louisville 17   UK 10-5  
2003-08-31 Lexington Louisville 40 Kentucky 24 UK 10-6
2004-09-04 Louisville Louisville 28 Kentucky 0 UK 10-7
2005-09-04 Lexington Louisville 31 Kentucky 24 UK 10-8
2006-09-03 Louisville Louisville 59 Kentucky 28 UK 10-9
 2007-09-15  Lexington Kentucky 40 Louisville 34 UK 11-9
2008-08-31 Louisville Kentucky 27 Louisville 2 UK 12-9
 2009-09-19  Lexington Kentucky 31 Louisville 27 UK 13-9
2010-09-04 Louisville Kentucky 23 Louisville 16 UK 14-9
2011-09-17 Lexington Louisville 24 Kentucky 17 UK 14-10


Kentucky victories are shaded ██ blue. Louisville victories shaded in ██ red. † indicates overtime. Numbers in parentheses indicate a team's Associated Press
Associated Press
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 Top 25 rank at the time of the games.

See also

  • Kentucky Wildcats
    Kentucky Wildcats
    The Kentucky Wildcats are the men's and women's intercollegiate athletic squads of the University of Kentucky , a founding member of the Southeastern Conference...

  • Louisville Cardinals
    Louisville Cardinals
    The Louisville Cardinals are the athletic teams representing the University of Louisville. A member of the Big East Conference since 2005, they are known nationally as traditional powers in men's basketball, women's volleyball, and dance team...

  • Governor's Cup (Kentucky)
    Governor's Cup (Kentucky)
    The Governor's Cup is a trophy awarded to the victor of the annual college football game between the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville; it is also used as a reference to the rivalry itself. Though the teams first played in 1912 the Governor's Cup has been awarded every year...

  • Traditional athletic rivalries in many countries of the world
    Local derby
    In many countries the term local derby, or simply just derby means a sporting fixture between two, generally local, rivals, particularly in association football...

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