Ole Miss vs. Texas

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

1. Ole Miss’s biggest win1957: Ole Miss 39, Texas 7by 32 points
2. Texas’s biggest win1914: Texas 66, Ole Miss 7by 59 points
3. Ranked showdown1961: Texas 12, Ole Miss 7No. 5 Ole Miss at No. 4 Texas

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Ole Miss’s side (Vaught 1–⁠2 against Royal). 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.

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

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  1912 · Bryan daily eagle and pilot, Bryan, Tex., Nov 18, 1912

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  1961 · Evening star, Jan 2, 1962

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.

• 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
• Texas vs. Oklahoma119 meetings, Texas 62–⁠52–⁠5
• Texas vs. Texas A&M113 meetings, Texas 71–⁠37–⁠5
• Texas vs. Baylor112 meetings, Texas 79–⁠28–⁠5
• Texas vs. Rice97 meetings, Texas 75–⁠21–⁠1