North Texas vs. Ole Miss

North Texas and Ole Miss have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1953; Ole Miss leads the series 4–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Ole Miss 4–⁠0, and Ole Miss has won the last 4.

North Texas wins
0
Ole Miss wins
4
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1953
Longest streak
4 Ole Miss
Current streak
4 Ole Miss
Last 10 meetings
Ole Miss 4–⁠0
Most recent
1956

The series at a glance

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

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

Coach against coach

YearsNorth TexasSeriesOle Miss
1953–⁠1956Odus Mitchell0–⁠4John Vaught

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from North Texas’s side (Mitchell 0–⁠4 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 North Texas and Ole Miss, 1953 on1300150017001960197019801990200020102020

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 Evening star's story of the 1953 game: Ole Miss Has SIGHTS on Terps; Clash Is NBC's Gome-of-Doy

    1953 · Evening star, Nov 10, 1953

  • The Evening star's story of the 1954 game

    1954 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 18, 1954

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 22, 195613Ole Miss 45, North Texas 0at Ole Miss
Oct 1, 1955Ole Miss 33, North Texas 0at Ole Miss
Sep 17, 195410Ole Miss 35, North Texas 12Neutral site
Nov 7, 195312Ole Miss 40, North Texas 7at Ole Miss

Every game is listed as played on the field.