1950 Kentucky Wildcats football team
The 1950 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky in the 1950 college football season. The offense scored 393 points while the defense allowed 69 points. Led by head coach Bear Bryant, the Wildcats were the SEC champions and by winning the Sugar Bowl were listed as the #1 ranked team 40 years later in a computer ranking produced by Jeff Sagarin.
Season
The 1950 Kentucky team concluded its season with a victory over Bud Wilkinson's #1 ranked and NCAA champion Oklahoma Sooners in the Sugar Bowl. The living players from the 1950 Wildcats team were honored during halftime of a game during the 2005 season as the #1 ranked team for the 1950 season, even though they finished the season ranked #7 by the AP. In 1990, Jeff Sagarin released a retroactive ranking of teams for the 1950 season and Kentucky was listed #1.
Schedule
| Game |
Date |
Opponent |
Result |
Wildcats points |
Opponents |
Record |
| 1 |
Sept. 16 |
North Texas |
Win |
25 |
0 |
1-0, #6 |
| 2 |
Sept. 23 |
Louisiana State |
Win |
14 |
0 |
2-0, #5 |
| 3 |
Sept. 30 |
Mississippi |
Win |
27 |
0 |
3-0, #6 |
| 4 |
Oct 7 |
Dayton |
Win |
40 |
0 |
4-0, #5 |
| 5 |
Oct. 14 |
Cincinnati |
Win |
41 |
7 |
5-0, #4 |
| 6 |
Oct. 21 |
at Villanova |
Win |
34 |
7 |
6-0, #4 |
| 7 |
Oct. 28 |
at Georgia Tech |
Win |
28 |
14 |
7-0, #5 |
| 8 |
Nov. 4 |
#17 Florida |
Win |
40 |
6 |
8-0, #4 |
| 9 |
Nov. 11 |
at Mississippi State |
Win |
48 |
21 |
9-0, #5 |
| 10 |
Nov. 18 |
North Dakota |
Win |
83 |
0 |
10-0, #3 |
| 11 |
Nov. 25 |
at #9 Tennessee |
Loss |
0 |
7 |
10-1, #7 |
| 12 |
Jan. 1 |
#1 Oklahoma |
Win |
13 |
7 |
11-1 |
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Team players in the NFL
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