Tigers and Rebels: 10 Facts To Know About LSU vs Ole Miss Football

By Tony Thomason November 16, 2019

By: Tony Thomas November 16, 2019

The #1 ranked LSU Tigers “geaux” on the road to take on the Ole Miss Rebels tonight in Oxford. Here are 10 facts to know about LSU-Ole Miss, a series that began in 1894 and has been played every year since 1945:

LSU has won the last 3 meetings and 7 of the last 9.
Ole Miss has the #1 ranked rushing offense in the SEC, at 247 yards per game.
LSU has the #2 rushing defense in the SEC, allowing just 100 yards per game.
Ole Miss has rushed for over 400 yards in a game twice this season, and has scored four or more rushing touchdowns twice.
LSU has a Top 5 nationally-ranked offense averaging 46 points per game.
LSU QB Joe Burrow: 3198 yards, 33 TDS, 4 INTs, 78% completion rate and is averaging 355 yards passing per game. Burrow is the front-runner to win the Heisman Trophy.
LSU head coach Ed Orgeron was a former head coach of Ole Miss from 2005-2007, where he accumulated a 10-25 record. His career record with LSU, as of tonight’s game, is 34-9.
Ole Miss has a tradition of assigning a deserving player jersey #38, which belonged to former Ole Miss player Chuckie Mullins. Mullins was paralyzed from the neck down after making a tackle against Vanderbilt in 1989. Mullins displayed incredible courage and spirit in dealing with the injury that left him a quadriplegic. Each year an Ole Miss player, who has displayed that same spirit and courage, is assigned jersey #38.
One of the greatest games ever played between LSU and Ole Miss occurred on Halloween night in 1959. Ole Miss was winning 3-0 when they punted the ball back to LSU. The ball hit at the 11-yard line and bounced up cleanly to HB Billy Cannon. Cannon eluded some would-be tacklers toward the middle of the field, ran to the right sideline, and then outran the Ole Miss pursuit 89 yards for a touchdown to put LSU ahead 7-3. Late in the game, Cannon would be in on a goal-line stop to preserve one of the greatest victories in LSU football history. Cannon would go on to win the Heisman Trophy that season.
LSU leads the series with Ole Miss 62-40-4.