When Mark Stoops’ Kentucky Wildcats take on Paul Johnson’s Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in the 2016 TaxSlayer Bowl, the two programs will look much different than they did the last time they met 56 years ago on September 18, 1960.
The two teams first played in 1923, finishing in a 3-3 tie in Atlanta. Nine years later, Tech and Kentucky became two of the SEC’s 13 founding members. The teams started a regular series that year, with Kentucky winning the first two matchups, until a hiatus during World War II.
By 1960, a decade of excellence ended with Blanton Collier on the Kentucky sideline.