Houston vs. Ole Miss

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

1. Houston’s biggest win1968: Houston 29, Ole Miss 7by 22 points
2. Ole Miss’s biggest win1958: Ole Miss 56, Houston 7by 49 points
3. Upset1965: Houston 17, Ole Miss 3Houston had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Ranked showdown1970: Ole Miss 24, Houston 13No. 18 Houston at No. 13 Ole Miss

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Houston’s side (Lahar 0–⁠5 against Vaught). 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.

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  1952 · Evening star, Nov 9, 1952

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  1954 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 14, 1954

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  1960 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 20, 1960

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Houston vs. Rice47 meetings, Houston 35–⁠12
• Houston vs. Tulsa46 meetings, Houston 26–⁠20
• Houston vs. Texas Tech37 meetings, Houston 18–⁠18–⁠1
• Houston vs. SMU37 meetings, Houston 22–⁠14–⁠1
• 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