The Kentucky Wildcats will begin their 2024 college football schedule against Southern Miss on August 31 — see below for more.

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2024 Kentucky Game and TV Schedule

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Kentucky 2024 Strength of Schedule

• According to their opponents’ combined win total last year (81), the Wildcats have the 18th-toughest schedule in college football.
• According to our predictions, Kentucky has the easiest schedule in college football.
• Using its opponents’ projected win total this year, Kentucky will be playing the 44th-ranked schedule in terms of difficulty.
• The Wildcats are playing the 35th-ranked conference schedule this season (based on their SEC opponents’ combined win total last year).
• Kentucky has a schedule that features seven games in 2024 against teams that finished above .500 in 2023 (five of those teams won nine or more games and two of them totaled three or fewer wins).
• The Wildcats have seven teams who played in a bowl game last year on their schedule in 2024.

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Kentucky Stat Insights (2023)

• The Wildcats totaled 339.5 yards per game on offense last season (100th in FBS), and they ranked 45th on the other side of the ball with 353.5 yards allowed per game.
• Despite sporting a bottom-25 scoring defense that ranked 73rd-worst in FBS last season (25.8 points allowed per game), Kentucky had more success on the other side of the ball, ranking 58th in FBS by averaging 29.1 points per game.
• Offensively, the Wildcats ranked 85th in FBS with 211.6 passing yards per game last season. Meanwhile, they ranked 93rd in passing yards allowed per contest (240.5).
• On defense, Kentucky was a top-25 unit in terms of rushing yards last season, ranking 18th-best by allowing just 113.1 rushing yards per game. It ranked 97th on offense (127.9 rushing yards per game).
• Kentucky forced 18 total turnovers (58th in FBS) last season and turned it over 20 times (88th in FBS) for a turnover margin of -2, 81st-ranked in college football.

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