Memphis vs. Ole Miss

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

1. Memphis’s biggest win1983: Memphis 37, Ole Miss 17by 20 points
2. Ole Miss’s biggest win1935: Ole Miss 92, Memphis 0by 92 points
3. Upset1987: Memphis 16, Ole Miss 10Memphis had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Memphis’s side (Murphy 1–⁠10–⁠1 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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1949 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Sep 17, 1949

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  1952 · The Key West citizen. (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, Florida, Sep 22, 1952

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  1954 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 7, 1954

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  1956 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 11, 1956

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  1963 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 23, 1963

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; a win the NCAA later vacated is marked “vacated”; the official series above counts them the NCAA’s way.

• Memphis vs. Southern Miss54 meetings, Memphis 21–⁠32–⁠1
• Memphis vs. Mississippi State46 meetings, Memphis 11–⁠35
• Memphis vs. Tulane43 meetings, Memphis 25–⁠17–⁠1
• Memphis vs. Louisville41 meetings, Memphis 17–⁠24
• 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