1956 Ole Miss

• Best winBeat No. 13 Vanderbilt 16–⁠0Oct 13

  Over the best-ranked team it beat, at home.

Date	Opponent	Result	Elo
Sep 22	vsNorth Texas	W 45–⁠0		93%
Sep 29	vsKentucky	W 37–⁠7		67%
Oct 6	vsHouston	W 14–⁠0		75%
Oct 13	vs13Vanderbilt	W 16–⁠0		69%
Oct 20	vs19Tulane	L 3–⁠10		76%
Oct 27	atArkansas	L 0–⁠14		57%
Nov 3	atLSU	W 46–⁠17		71%
Nov 10	atMemphis	W 26–⁠0		90%
Nov 17	at1Tennessee	L 7–⁠27		39%
Dec 1	vsMississippi State	W 13–⁠7		75%

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

1. Wk 1: 13
2. Wk 2: 9
3. Wk 3: 6
4. Wk 4: 7
5. Wk 5: 6
6. Wk 6: 10
7. Wk 9: 19

• Billy LottBack

Before 2004 our records hold honors and the draft; these are the players whose college years here, from their Wikipedia articles or their honors, include 1956.

From Wikipedia’s 1956 all-conference team article, with the selectors that named each player (AP-1: the Associated Press’s first team).

Team	Conf.	Overall	AP final
Tennessee	6–⁠0	10–⁠1	2
Georgia Tech	7–⁠1	10–⁠1	4
Florida	5–⁠2	6–⁠3–⁠1
Ole Miss	4–⁠2	7–⁠3
Auburn	4–⁠3	7–⁠3
Kentucky	4–⁠4	6–⁠4
Tulane	3–⁠3	6–⁠4
Vanderbilt	2–⁠5	5–⁠5
Mississippi State	2–⁠5	4–⁠6
Alabama	2–⁠5	2–⁠7–⁠1
LSU	1–⁠5	3–⁠7
Georgia	1–⁠6	3–⁠6–⁠1

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied.