Alabama vs. Ole Miss

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. Alabama’s biggest win1930: Alabama 64, Ole Miss 0by 64 points
2. Ole Miss’s biggest win1970: Ole Miss 48, Alabama 23by 25 points
3. Upset1988: Ole Miss 22, Alabama 12Ole Miss had a 17% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset2015: Ole Miss 43, Alabama 37Ole Miss had a 28% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1976: Ole Miss 10, Alabama 7Ole Miss had a 32% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown2021: Alabama 42, Ole Miss 21No. 12 Ole Miss at No. 1 Alabama
7. Ranked showdown2014: Ole Miss 23, Alabama 17No. 3 Alabama at No. 11 Ole Miss
8. Ranked showdown1963: Alabama 12, Ole Miss 7No. 7 Ole Miss at No. 9 Alabama

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Alabama’s side (Thomas 2–⁠0–⁠1 against Walker). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

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  1907 · Hattiesburg daily news, Hattiesburg, Miss., Oct 13, 1907

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  1910 · The Birmingham age-herald, Nov 6, 1910

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  1915 · The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, Nov 26, 1915

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  1916 · Oxford eagle, Mississippi, Nov 2, 1916

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  1919 · Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, Mississippi, Oct 16, 1919

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from this game twice: 2015, 2014.

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of its locations (CC BY-SA).

Every game is listed as played on the field; a win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”, and a game one side later forfeited is marked “forfeited”; the official series above counts them the NCAA’s way.

• Alabama vs. Tennessee108 meetings, Alabama 61–⁠40–⁠7
• Alabama vs. Mississippi State107 meetings, Alabama 87–⁠17–⁠3
• Alabama vs. LSU89 meetings, Alabama 58–⁠26–⁠5
• Alabama vs. Vanderbilt87 meetings, Alabama 64–⁠19–⁠4
• Ole Miss vs. Mississippi State119 meetings, Ole Miss 67–⁠47–⁠5
• Ole Miss vs. LSU110 meetings, Ole Miss 42–⁠64–⁠4
• Ole Miss vs. Vanderbilt96 meetings, Ole Miss 57–⁠37–⁠2
• Ole Miss vs. Arkansas72 meetings, Ole Miss 34–⁠37–⁠1