Boston College vs. Ole Miss

Boston College and Ole Miss have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1948; Ole Miss leads the series 3–⁠0–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Ole Miss 3–⁠0, and Ole Miss has won the last 2.

Boston College wins
0
Ole Miss wins
3
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1948
Longest streak
2 Ole Miss
Current streak
2 Ole Miss
Last 10 meetings
Ole Miss 3–⁠0
Most recent
1951

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s0–⁠1–⁠1
1950s0–⁠2
Average margin
25 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Boston College
0–⁠0–⁠1 Boston College’s record at home
At Ole Miss
1–⁠0 Ole Miss’s record at home
Neutral sites
0–⁠2 Boston College first
Shutouts
1

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

Coach against coach

YearsBoston CollegeSeriesOle Miss
1948–⁠1950Denny Myers0–⁠2–⁠1John Vaught

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Boston College and Ole Miss, 1948 on13001500170019501960197019801990200020102020

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.

From the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story of the 1948 game: &1AsAikg8 5 ga Agiklg8@6 FOOTBALL { SCORES

    1948 · The Daily Alaska empire, Oct 25, 1948

  • The Evening star's story of the 1949 game: Hoyas 10 Win by Close Score Or Lose by Big One, Says Margarita

    1949 · Evening star, Oct 18, 1949

  • The Evening star's story of the 1951 game: Mississippi CopitoIizes On Boston College Errors

    1951 · Evening star, Oct 6, 1951

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

Oct 5, 1951Ole Miss 34, Boston College 7Neutral site
Oct 7, 1950Ole Miss 54, Boston College 0at Ole Miss
Oct 14, 1949Boston College 25, Ole Miss 25at Boston College
Oct 23, 194820Ole Miss 32, Boston College 13Neutral site

Every game is listed as played on the field.