Auburn vs. Ole Miss
Auburn and Ole Miss have 48 meetings on file, the first in 1928; officially, Auburn leads 35–12; as played, 35–13 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Auburn 7–3, and Ole Miss has won the last 2. The NCAA vacated Ole Miss’s win (2012); it doesn’t count officially. This page counts every game as it was played. Share
- Official series
- Auburn leads 35–12
- Auburn wins on file
- 35
- Ole Miss wins on file
- 13
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1928
- Longest streak
- 9 Auburn
- Current streak
- 2 Ole Miss
- Last 10 meetings
- Auburn 7–3
- Most recent
- 2023
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1930s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1940s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 1–2 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 5–0 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 2–0 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 8–2 | ||||||||||
| 2000s | 8–2 | ||||||||||
| 2010s | 8–2 | ||||||||||
| 2020s | 2–2 |
- Both ranked
- 3 meetings: Auburn 3, Ole Miss 0; 1 both in the top 10
- Average margin
- 13 points; 21 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Auburn
- 18–7 Auburn’s record at home
- At Ole Miss
- 4–16 Ole Miss’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 1–2 Auburn first
- Shutouts
- 5
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Auburn’s biggest win1985: Auburn 41, Ole Miss 0by 41 points
- Ole Miss’s biggest win1949: Ole Miss 40, Auburn 7by 33 points
- Upset1953: Auburn 13, Ole Miss 0Auburn had a 26% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1976: Auburn 10, Ole Miss 0Auburn had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Ranked showdown2014: Auburn 35, Ole Miss 31No. 4 Auburn at No. 7 Ole Miss
- Ranked showdown2021: Auburn 31, Ole Miss 20No. 10 Ole Miss at No. 18 Auburn
- Ranked showdown1972: Auburn 19, Ole Miss 13No. 17 Auburn at No. 18 Ole Miss
Coach against coach
| Years | Auburn | Series | Ole Miss |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951–1973 | Ralph Jordan | 3–3 | John Vaught |
| 1984–1992 | Pat Dye | 4–1 | Billy Brewer |
| 1995–1998 | Terry Bowden | 4–0 | Tommy Tuberville |
| 1999–2004 | Tommy Tuberville | 4–2 | David Cutcliffe |
| 2005–2007 | Tommy Tuberville | 3–0 | Ed Orgeron |
| 2009–2011 | Gene Chizik | 3–0 | Houston Nutt |
| 2013–2016 | Gus Malzahn | 3–1 | Hugh Freeze |
| 2017–2019 | Gus Malzahn | 3–0 | Matt Luke |
Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Auburn’s side (Jordan 3–3 against Vaught). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.
Both programs through the years
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.
Stars of the series
Biggest days
| Chad Kelly Ole Miss | 36 of 59, 465 yards, 3 TD, 1 INT | 2016 Passing |
Named most valuable
| Pat Sullivan Auburn | 1970 |
| Archie Manning Ole Miss | 1970 |
| Tom Bryan Auburn | 1965 |
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).
From the newspapers
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.
Every game
Every game is listed as played on the field; a win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”; the official series above counts them the NCAA’s way.