Ole Miss vs. South Carolina

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

1. Ole Miss’s biggest win1947: Ole Miss 33, South Carolina 0by 33 points
2. South Carolina’s biggest win2008: South Carolina 31, Ole Miss 24by 7 points
3. Upset1974: South Carolina 10, Ole Miss 7South Carolina had a 26% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1981: Ole Miss 20, South Carolina 13Ole Miss had a 29% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Ole Miss’s side (Cooper 1–⁠2 against Carlen). 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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  1947 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 5, 1947

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.

Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• 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
• South Carolina vs. Clemson117 meetings, South Carolina 43–⁠70–⁠4
• South Carolina vs. Georgia73 meetings, South Carolina 19–⁠52–⁠2
• South Carolina vs. North Carolina60 meetings, South Carolina 20–⁠36–⁠4
• South Carolina vs. Wake Forest56 meetings, South Carolina 34–⁠20–⁠2