Ole Miss vs. Texas A&M

Ole Miss and Texas A&M have 15 meetings on file, the first in 1911; officially, Texas A&M leads 9–⁠4; as played, 9–⁠6 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Ole Miss 6–⁠4, and Ole Miss has won the last 3. The NCAA vacated Ole Miss’s two wins (2014 and 2016); they don’t count officially. This page counts every game as it was played.

Official series
Texas A&M leads 9–⁠4
Ole Miss wins on file
6
Texas A&M wins on file
9
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1911
Longest streak
6 Texas A&M
Current streak
3 Ole Miss
Last 10 meetings
Ole Miss 6–⁠4
Most recent
2023

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s0–⁠2
1970s0–⁠1
1980s0–⁠1
2010s3–⁠5
2020s3–⁠0
Both ranked
3 meetings: Ole Miss 3, Texas A&M 0
Average margin
8 points; 10 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Ole Miss
3–⁠5 Ole Miss’s record at home
At Texas A&M
4–⁠3 Texas A&M’s record at home
Shutouts
2

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Ole Miss’s biggest win2015: Ole Miss 23, Texas A&M 3by 20 points
  2. Texas A&M’s biggest win1911: Texas A&M 17, Ole Miss 0by 17 points
  3. Ranked showdown2014: Ole Miss 35, Texas A&M 20No. 3 Ole Miss at No. 14 Texas A&M
  4. Ranked showdown2021: Ole Miss 29, Texas A&M 19No. 11 Texas A&M at No. 12 Ole Miss
  5. Ranked showdown2015: Ole Miss 23, Texas A&M 3No. 15 Texas A&M at No. 24 Ole Miss

Coach against coach

YearsOle MissSeriesTexas A&M
2012–⁠2016Hugh Freeze3–⁠2Kevin Sumlin
2021–⁠2023Lane Kiffin3–⁠0Jimbo Fisher

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Ole Miss’s side (Freeze 3–⁠2 against Sumlin). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Ole Miss and Texas A&M, 1911 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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.

Stars of the series

Biggest days

Trayveon Williams Texas A&M31 carries, 228 yards, 1 TD2018 Rushing
Tre Harris Ole Miss11 catches, 213 yards, 1 TD2023 Receiving
Quinshon Judkins Ole Miss34 carries, 205 yards, 1 TD2022 Rushing
Derrick Tucker Texas A&M14 tackles, 1 for loss, 1 INT, 1 TD2017 Defense

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

From the newspapers

  • The The Birmingham age-herald's story of the 1914 game: IDLE MISS" DOWNED BY TEXAS A. AND M.

    1914 · The Birmingham age-herald, Nov 27, 1914

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.

On television

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from this game once: 2021.

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of its locations (CC BY-SA).

Every game

Nov 4, 202311Ole Miss 38, Texas A&M 35at Ole Miss
Oct 29, 202215Ole Miss 31, Texas A&M 28at Texas A&M
Nov 13, 202112Ole Miss 29, 11Texas A&M 19at Ole Miss
Oct 19, 2019Texas A&M 24, Ole Miss 17at Ole Miss
Nov 10, 2018Texas A&M 38, Ole Miss 24at Texas A&M
Nov 18, 2017Texas A&M 31, Ole Miss 24at Ole Miss
Nov 12, 2016Ole Miss 29, 10Texas A&M 28vacatedat Texas A&M
Oct 24, 201524Ole Miss 23, 15Texas A&M 3at Ole Miss
Oct 11, 20143Ole Miss 35, 14Texas A&M 20vacatedat Texas A&M
Oct 12, 20139Texas A&M 41, Ole Miss 38at Ole Miss
Oct 6, 2012Texas A&M 30, Ole Miss 27at Ole Miss
Sep 6, 1980Texas A&M 23, Ole Miss 20at Ole Miss
Sep 13, 19758Texas A&M 7, Ole Miss 0at Texas A&M
Nov 26, 1914Texas A&M 14, Ole Miss 7at Texas A&M
Oct 27, 1911Texas A&M 17, Ole Miss 0at Texas A&M

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.