First Ever Win for each SEC Football Team

Kentucky -1881

So Kentucky beat Dracula and his gang?

Ours would be ole Miss

First ever loss might be even more interesting, particularly if it’s the same kind of names.

Eta: According to Wiki, Alabama’s first loss was the Birmingham Athletic Club. Apparently they played twice in Bama’s inaugural season and they won one and lost one. Reporters indicated Bama beat themselves though.

Bonus:

Tulane's first football win was over LSU in 1893.
Georgia Tech's first football win was over Georgia in 1893.
Sewanee's first football win was over Tennessee in 1891.

The three former members are over here playing real schedules, meanwhile Arkansas, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Texas A&M beat high school students. Kentucky beat mythological vampires (probably a noon kickoff), Texas beat a soccer team, Vanderbilt beat a bunch of aliens trying too hard to blend in at the "Totally Normal School," and Missouri just beat up a bunch of engineering nerds and called it a day.

I noticed lots of High Schools on the list so I was curious and looked it up. It was common to play HSs back then. UGAs win over Mercer in 1982 is considered the first intercollegiate football game played in the South. It was also UGAs first game. I their second game they played Auburn (loss) which became known as the DSOR.

Ole Miss vs Union and aggy beating a high school seem appropriate

Our first football coach was John C. Futrall, who should have the county renamed after him.

Futrall was an important educator, later President of the University of Arkansas, and he pulled off miracles. The school was in danger of closing when he was appointed and he managed to get us firmly out of the red. Then he fought a long, and successful, campaign to prevent Little Rock from getting the University.

I can't even begin to imagine what NW Arkansas would look like if the flagship university for the state had not remained here. Would we have Tyson and Walmart in the area? The economic boom that has been going steady for 40+ years?