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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 11-23-2008, 09:04 AM:

The Kentucky-Tennessee rivalry?

A joke.

Same team winning every year.

Across many years of UK-UT border battles, people wondered if there would EVER be another win for ...

Tennessee?

Those born after Nov. 24, 1984 — the most recent time Kentucky beat Tennessee at football — will have to take my word on this.

When it came to matchups between the Wildcats and the Volunteers in the major sports, there was a time when the Blue boys could barely lose for winning.

Last winter, while researching Kentucky's 1958 NCAA basketball champions, I stumbled across the following in a sports column from the March 3, 1958, Lexington Herald.

Knoxville folks are wondering if the worm will ever turn. Since the Vols beat UK's Cotton Bowl football team in November 1951, Kentucky and Tennessee have met 23 times in football and basketball.

The Wildcats have won 21 times, gained a tie on another occasion and have lost only once.

Kentuckians love it but Tennesseans are getting tired of seeing the Big Blue carry off all the laurels.

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