96 of their 99 meetings are on file: they first met in 1894, and the earliest on file is 1902; officially, Ole Miss leads 55–40–2; as played, 57–37–2 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Ole Miss 8–2, and Ole Miss has won the last 6. The NCAA vacated Ole Miss’s two wins (2013 and 2014); they don’t count officially. This page counts every game as it was played. Share
Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Ole Miss’s side (Stauffer 0–3 against McGugin). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.
Both programs through the years
Ole Miss VanderbiltTicks under the axis: each meeting, in the winner’s color
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).
From the newspapers
1902 · The Savannah morning news, Georgia, Oct 12, 1902
1907 · The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, Nov 10, 1907
1910 · The commonwealth, Greenwood, Miss., Nov 4, 1910
1911 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 19, 1911
1912 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 27, 1912
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.
Photos
Ole Miss about to score on Vanderbilt in their 1953 game. Ole Miss won, 28–6.Photo: University of Mississippi, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsThe 1953 game
From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited).