Chattanooga vs. Ole Miss

Chattanooga and Ole Miss first met in 1945 and have played 15 times; Ole Miss leads the series 14–⁠1. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Ole Miss 10–⁠0, and Ole Miss has won the last 14.

Chattanooga wins
1
Ole Miss wins
14
Ties
0
First meeting
1945
Longest streak
14 Ole Miss
Current streak
14 Ole Miss
Last 10 meetings
Ole Miss 10–⁠0
Most recent
1993

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s1–⁠3
1950s0–⁠3
1960s0–⁠5
1970s0–⁠2
1990s0–⁠1
Average margin
35.4 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Chattanooga
1–⁠1 Chattanooga’s record at home
At Ole Miss
13–⁠0 Ole Miss’s record at home
Shutouts
6

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Chattanooga’s biggest win1945: Chattanooga 31, Ole Miss 6by 25 points
  2. Ole Miss’s biggest win1959: Ole Miss 58, Chattanooga 0by 58 points
  3. Upset1945: Chattanooga 31, Ole Miss 6Chattanooga had a 28% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Coach against coach

YearsChattanoogaSeriesOle Miss
1947–⁠1950Scrappy Moore0–⁠3John Vaught

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Chattanooga’s side (Moore 0–⁠3 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 Chattanooga and Ole Miss, 1945 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 1945 game: FOOTBALL q SCORES

    1945 · The Daily Alaska empire, Nov 30, 1945

  • The Evening star's story of the 1953 game: Rookie Leads Ole Miss Over Chattanooga, 1915

    1953 · Evening star, Sep 20, 1953

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

Sep 11, 1993Ole Miss 40, Chattanooga 7at Ole Miss
Nov 13, 1971Ole Miss 49, Chattanooga 10at Ole Miss
Nov 14, 197012Ole Miss 44, Chattanooga 7at Ole Miss
Nov 8, 196917Ole Miss 21, Chattanooga 0at Ole Miss
Nov 9, 1968Ole Miss 38, Chattanooga 16at Ole Miss
Nov 10, 19624Ole Miss 52, Chattanooga 7at Ole Miss
Nov 11, 1961Ole Miss 54, Chattanooga 0at Ole Miss
Nov 5, 19606Ole Miss 45, Chattanooga 0at Ole Miss
Nov 7, 19595Ole Miss 58, Chattanooga 0at Ole Miss
Sep 19, 1953Ole Miss 39, Chattanooga 6at Ole Miss
Nov 11, 1950Ole Miss 20, Chattanooga 0at Ole Miss
Nov 5, 1949Ole Miss 47, Chattanooga 27at Ole Miss
Nov 6, 1948Ole Miss 34, Chattanooga 7at Chattanooga
Nov 15, 194715Ole Miss 52, Chattanooga 0at Ole Miss
Nov 29, 1945Chattanooga 31, Ole Miss 6at Chattanooga

Every game is listed as played on the field.