Georgia vs. Ole Miss
Georgia and Ole Miss have 50 meetings on file, the first in 1940; officially, Georgia leads 34–14–1; as played, 34–15–1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Georgia 7–3. The NCAA vacated Ole Miss’s win (2016); it doesn’t count officially. This page counts every game as it was played. Share
- Official series
- Georgia leads 34–14–1
- Georgia wins on file
- 34
- Ole Miss wins on file
- 15
- Ties
- 1
- Earliest on file
- 1940
- Longest streak
- 12 Georgia
- Current streak
- 1 Ole Miss
- Last 10 meetings
- Georgia 7–3
- Most recent
- 2025
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 1–1–1 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 2–2 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 7–3 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 9–1 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 6–4 | ||||||||||
| 2000s | 5–0 | ||||||||||
| 2010s | 2–1 | ||||||||||
| 2020s | 2–2 |
- Both ranked
- 8 meetings: Georgia 5, Ole Miss 3; 3 both in the top 10
- Average margin
- 15.5 points; 19 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Georgia
- 20–5–1 Georgia’s record at home
- At Ole Miss
- 9–13 Ole Miss’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 1–1 Georgia first
- Shutouts
- 2
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Georgia’s biggest win1974: Georgia 49, Ole Miss 0by 49 points
- Ole Miss’s biggest win2016: Ole Miss 45, Georgia 14by 31 points
- Upset1991: Georgia 37, Ole Miss 17Georgia had a 31% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1996: Ole Miss 31, Georgia 27Ole Miss had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Ranked showdown2025: Ole Miss 39, Georgia 34No. 6 Ole Miss at No. 2 Georgia
- Ranked showdown2023: Georgia 52, Ole Miss 17No. 10 Ole Miss at No. 1 Georgia
- Ranked showdown2025: Georgia 43, Ole Miss 35No. 5 Ole Miss at No. 9 Georgia
- Ranked showdown2024: Ole Miss 28, Georgia 10No. 2 Georgia at No. 16 Ole Miss
Coach against coach
| Years | Georgia | Series | Ole Miss |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940–1942 | Wallace Butts | 1–1–1 | Harry Mehre |
| 1966–1973 | Vince Dooley | 3–3 | John Vaught |
| 1974–1977 | Vince Dooley | 2–2 | Ken Cooper |
| 1978–1982 | Vince Dooley | 5–0 | Steve Sloan |
| 1983–1988 | Vince Dooley | 6–0 | Billy Brewer |
| 1989–1993 | Ray Goff | 2–3 | Billy Brewer |
| 1996–1998 | Jim Donnan | 2–1 | Tommy Tuberville |
| 2023–2025 | Kirby Smart | 2–1 | Lane Kiffin |
Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Georgia’s side (Butts 1–1–1 against Mehre). 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
| Trinidad Chambliss Ole Miss | 30 of 46, 362 yards, 2 TD | 2025 Passing |
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).
From the newspapers

1940 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 13, 1940

1941 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 13, 1941

1942 · Evening star, Oct 11, 1942
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.
On television
ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from this game twice: 2025, 2023.
| 2025 | ABC | 9.8 million viewers |
| 2025 | ESPN | 18.7 million viewers |
College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of its locations (CC BY-SA). Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.
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.