Kentucky was the team that brought football to the south.

STOLL FIELD: In 1880 the first college football game ever played in the South was held here at what was eventually named Stoll Field. It was dedicated in 1916 at the Kentucky vs. Vanderbilt game and was named in honor of alumnus and long-term Board of Trustees member Judge Richard C. Stoll. The field was the setting of early football games and an integral part of student life.

The game was played between Kentucky University and Centre College

Kentucky would also be the site of the first SEC football on 09/30/33 when Kentucky beat Sewanee 7-0. The first SEC president was I believe the Kentucky president at the time.

NOT SO FAST MY FRIEND!

Before UGA played Yale and before Bama won the Rose Bowl the real team that put southern football on the map was Centre College in central Kentucky. Centre played two games that changed football in the South and remains famous for both games today.

Game #1 | C6H0 LINK
Centre beat Harvard 6–0 in the game, in what is widely considered one of the greatest upsets in college football history.

The game was a scoreless tie at halftime. Early in the third quarter, Centre's All American Blocking Back, "Red" Roberts told Bo McMillin, "it's time to score, ride my hump", and McMillin rushed for the lone touchdown of the game. The Praying Colonels' defense held off the Crimson's powerful offense from there for a 6–0 victory. Following the game, students from MIT who came to cheer against Harvard carried McMillin off the field and tore down the goalposts. The Colonels had shocked mighty Harvard, becoming the first school ever from outside the East to beat one of the Ivy League's "Big Three" of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Back in Danville, Kentucky, overjoyed students painted the "impossible formula" C6H0 (Centre 6, Harvard 0) on everything in sight (including a few cows). At least one marking still remains, on the side of the Centre post office.

Game #2 | 1922 Dixie Classic (what would become the Cotton Bowl) LINK

The 1922 Dixie Classic was a post-season college football bowl game between the Texas A&M Aggies and the Centre College Praying Colonels on January 2, 1922 at Fair Park Stadium in Dallas, Texas. Texas A&M defeated Centre 22–14. It is also the game in which Texas A&M's 12th man tradition originated.

Centre came into the game undefeated, outscoring its opponents by a margin of 314 to 6. It also upset Harvard in the regular season in what was later deemed one of the greatest upsets in college football history. A&M finished its regular season 5–1–2 and captured a Southwest Conference title.