2025 Kentucky Football Schedule Unveiled

Conference championship games just concluded. That’s not stopping the SEC from looking ahead to the next season. On Wednesday night we got our first look at the 2025 Kentucky football schedule.

Unlike most of the Power Four conferences, the SEC is sticking with an 8-game conference schedule. Those terms were agreed upon prior to Texas and Oklahoma’s arrival, but it could change after the 2025 season.

Next year’s Kentucky football schedule will feature the same SEC opponents as the 2024 slate where the Wildcats went 1-7 and failed to score more than 20 points. The Wildcats have lost seven straight SEC games at home. Mark Stoops and the Kentucky coaching staff are in the process of constructing next year’s roster to prepare for a seven-game home slate at Kroger Field.

In the non-conference, Kentucky will host a pair of teams from the MAC. Jason Candle’s Toledo football team knocked off Mississippi State at Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville last fall. Eastern Michigan finished one win away from bowl eligibility. Mark Stoops has three wins over the programs during his tenure in Lexington. The Kentucky football schedule concludes with a road trip to Louisville, a place where the Cats haven’t lost since 2014, Mark Stoops’ second season.

This is another quirky Kentucky football schedule that features two byes. They’re early for the Wildcats, who will end the season with seven straight games. It’s a brutal schedule, but there is one positive — Florida is finally traveling north to Lexington in November.

Complete 2025 Kentucky Football Schedule

Aug. 30: vs. Toledo – Kroger Field (Lexington, KY)
Sept 6: vs. Ole Miss – Kroger Field (Lexington, KY)
Sep. 13: vs. Eastern Michigan – Kroger Field (Lexington, KY)
Sept. 20: OPEN
Sept. 27: at South Carolina – Williams-Brice Stadium (Columbia, SC)
Oct. 4: at Georgia – Sanford Stadium (Athens, GA)
Oct. 11: OPEN
Oct. 18: vs. Texas – Kroger Field (Lexington, KY)
Oct. 25: vs. Tennessee – Kroger Field (Lexington, KY)
Nov. 1: at Auburn- Jordan-Hare Stadium (Auburn, AL)
Nov. 8: vs. Florida – Kroger Field (Lexington, KY)
Nov. 15: vs. Tennessee Tech – Kroger Field (Lexington, KY)
Nov. 22: at Vanderbilt – FirstBank Stadium (Nashville, TN)
Nov. 29: at Louisville – L&N Stadium (Louisville, KY)

Want more? Take a closer look at every SEC football team’s schedule in 2025.

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