Ole Miss vs. Tampa

Ole Miss and Tampa first met in 1963 and have played 3 times; Ole Miss leads the series 3–⁠0. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Ole Miss 3–⁠0, and Ole Miss has won the last 3.

Ole Miss wins
3
Tampa wins
0
Ties
0
First meeting
1963
Longest streak
3 Ole Miss
Current streak
3 Ole Miss
Last 10 meetings
Ole Miss 3–⁠0
Most recent
1971

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1960s2–⁠0
1970s1–⁠0
Average margin
26 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Ole Miss
2–⁠0 Ole Miss’s record at home
At Tampa
0–⁠1 Tampa’s record at home
Shutouts
2

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Ole Miss and Tampa, 1963 on130015001700197019801990200020102020

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 The chronicle's story of the 1963 game: Bowl Picture Taking Shape

    1963 · The chronicle, Mississippi, Nov 11, 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

Nov 6, 1971Ole Miss 28, Tampa 27at Tampa
Nov 7, 1964Ole Miss 36, Tampa 0at Ole Miss
Nov 9, 19633Ole Miss 41, Tampa 0at Ole Miss

Every game is listed as played on the field.