Magnolia Bowl

Magnolia Bowl
Teams	LSU Tigers Ole Miss Rebels
Originated	1894
Series	LSU leads 57-39-4
Largest Margin of Victory	LSU 52, Ole Miss 3 November 19, 2011
Highest Scoring Game	LSU 43, Ole Miss 36 November 20, 2010
Most Recent Game	LSU 52, Ole Miss 3 November 19, 2011
Current Streak	LSU 2

The LSU-Ole Miss rivalry, more recently renamed the Magnolia Bowl,^[1] is a college football rivalry between Louisiana State University (LSU) and the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). The teams first met in 1894, and have been regular opponents in SEC, meeting annually since 1945. The rivalry was at its height during the 1950s and 1960s, when both schools were highly ranked and during which time both teams claimed a consensus national championship. The rivalry died down from the seventies to the nineties, due to Ole Miss not returning to conference or national prominence since the 1970s and because LSU has seen new rivalries emerge with the SEC split in 1992, most notably Auburn, Alabama, and Florida. Even though the rivalry has died down from its height on the national stage, it still stirs up great passion in both Oxford and Baton Rouge.

In 2008, the student bodies of both schools elected to christen the yearly contest the "Magnolia Bowl", the magnolia flower being the state flower of both Louisiana and Mississippi, and award a trophy to the winner. Ole Miss defeated LSU 31-13 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to become the first winner of the new trophy.

Series Results

LSU leads the all time series, 56-39-4. The longest win streak is 8, held by LSU with victories from 1928 to 1937 (The teams did not meet in 1932 or 1935). The next longest winning streak is 6, a total reached by both Ole Miss and LSU. The Tigers won from 2002 to 2007, while the Rebels were able to defeat LSU from 1952 to 1957. It is the second most played rivalry for both teams. The 2011 edition in Oxford will be the 100th meeting between the two schools.

Game results

Ole Miss and LSU face each other in 2007.

Mississippi victories are shaded ██ blue. LSU victories shaded in ██ purple. Ties shaded white.

Date	Site	Winning team		Losing team
December 3, 1894	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	26	LSU	6
November 13, 1896	Vicksburg	LSU	12	Mississippi	4
November 3, 1899	Meridian	Mississippi	11	LSU	0
November 7, 1901	Baton Rouge	LSU	46	Mississippi	0
November 8, 1902	New Orleans	LSU	6	Mississippi	0
November 21, 1903	New Orleans	Mississippi	11	LSU	0
November 5, 1904	Baton Rouge	LSU	5	Mississippi	0
October 20, 1906	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	9	LSU	0
November 16, 1907	Jackson	LSU	23	Mississippi	0
October 9, 1909	Baton Rouge	LSU	10	Mississippi	0
October 19, 1912	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	10	LSU	7
October 17, 1914	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	21	LSU	0
October 15, 1915	Oxford	LSU	28	Mississippi	0
November 18, 1916	Baton Rouge	LSU	41	Mississippi	0
October 13, 1917	Oxford	LSU	52	Mississippi	7
October 18, 1919	Baton Rouge	LSU	13	Mississippi	0
November 12, 1921	Baton Rouge	LSU	21	Mississippi	0
November 13, 1926	Baton Rouge	LSU	3	Mississippi	0
November 5, 1927	Oxford	Mississippi	12	LSU	7
November 10, 1928	Baton Rouge	LSU	19	Mississippi	6
November 16, 1929	Baton Rouge	LSU	13	Mississippi	6
November 8, 1930	Baton Rouge	LSU	6	Mississippi	0
November 13, 1931	Jackson	LSU	26	Mississippi	3
November 8, 1933	Baton Rouge	LSU	31	Mississippi	0
November 17, 1934	Jackson	LSU	14	Mississippi	0
October 17, 1936	Baton Rouge	LSU	13	Mississippi	0
September 24, 1937	Baton Rouge	LSU	13	Mississippi	7
September 24, 1938	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	20	LSU	7
September 30, 1939	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	14	LSU	7
September 28, 1940	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	19	LSU	6
November 8, 1941	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	13	LSU	12
October 17, 1942	Baton Rouge	LSU	21	Mississippi	7
November 3, 1945	Baton Rouge	LSU	32	Mississippi	13
November 13, 1946	Baton Rouge	LSU	34	Mississippi	21
November 1, 1947	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	20	LSU	18
October 30, 1948	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	49	LSU	19
October 10, 1949	Baton Rouge	LSU	34	Mississippi	7
November 4, 1950	Baton Rouge	LSU	40	Mississippi	14
November 3, 1951	Baton Rouge	LSU	6	Mississippi	6
November 1, 1952	Oxford	Mississippi	28	LSU	0
October 31, 1953	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	27	LSU	16
October 30, 1954	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	21	LSU	6
October 29, 1955	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	29	LSU	26
November 3, 1956	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	46	LSU	17
November 9, 1957	Oxford	Mississippi	14	LSU	12
November 1, 1958	Baton Rouge	LSU	14	Mississippi	0
October 31, 1959	Baton Rouge	LSU	7	Mississippi	3
January 1, 1960	New Orleans (Sugar Bowl)	Mississippi	21	LSU	0
October 29, 1960	Oxford	Mississippi	6	LSU	6
November 4, 1961	Baton Rouge	LSU	10	Mississippi	7
November 3, 1962	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	15	LSU	7
November 2, 1963	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	37	LSU	3
October 31, 1964	Baton Rouge	LSU	11	Mississippi	10
October 30, 1965	Jackson	Mississippi	23	LSU	0
October 29, 1966	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	17	LSU	0
November 29, 1967	Jackson	Mississippi	13	LSU	13
November 2, 1968	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	27	LSU	24
November 1, 1969	Jackson	Mississippi	26	LSU	23
December 5, 1970	Baton Rouge	LSU	61	Mississippi	17
October 30, 1971	Jackson	Mississippi	24	LSU	22
November 4, 1972	Baton Rouge	LSU	17	Mississippi	16
November 3, 1973	Jackson	LSU	51	Mississippi	14
November 2, 1974	Baton Rouge	LSU	24	Mississippi	0
November 1, 1975	Jackson	Mississippi	24	LSU	13
October 30, 1976	Baton Rouge	LSU	45	Mississippi	0
October 29, 1977	Jackson	LSU	28	Mississippi	21
November 4, 1978	Baton Rouge	LSU	30	Mississippi	8
November 3, 1979	Jackson	LSU	28	Mississippi	24
November 1, 1980	Baton Rouge	LSU	38	LSU	16
October 31, 1981	Jackson	Mississippi	27	LSU	27
October 30, 1982	Baton Rouge	LSU	45	Mississippi	8
October 29, 1983	Jackson	Mississippi	27	LSU	24
November 3, 1984	Baton Rouge	LSU	32	Mississippi	29
November 2, 1985	Jackson	LSU	14	Mississippi	0
November 1, 1986	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	21	LSU	19
October 31, 1987	Jackson	LSU	42	Mississippi	13
October 29, 1988	Baton Rouge	LSU	31	Mississippi	20
November 4, 1989	Oxford	LSU	35	Mississippi	30
November 3, 1990	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	19	LSU	10
November 2, 1991	Jackson	LSU	25	Mississippi	22
October 31, 1992	Jackson	Mississippi	32	LSU	0
October 30, 1993	Baton Rouge	LSU	19	Mississippi	17
October 29, 1994	Oxford	Mississippi	34	LSU	21
November 11, 1995	Baton Rouge	LSU	38	Mississippi	9
November 16, 1996	Oxford	LSU	39	Mississippi	7
November 26, 1997	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	36	LSU	21
October 31, 1998	Oxford	Mississippi	37	LSU	31
October 30, 1999	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	42	LSU	23
November 11, 2000	Oxford	LSU	20	Mississippi	9
October 27, 2001	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	35	LSU	24
November 23, 2002	Baton Rouge	LSU	14	Mississippi	13
November 22, 2003	Oxford	LSU	17	Mississippi	14
November 20, 2004	Baton Rouge	LSU	27	Mississippi	24
November 19, 2005	Oxford	LSU	40	Mississippi	7
November 18, 2006	Baton Rouge	LSU	23	Mississippi	20
November 17, 2007	Oxford	LSU	41	Mississippi	24
November 22, 2008	Baton Rouge	Mississippi	31	LSU	13
November 21, 2009	Oxford	Mississippi	25	LSU	23
November 20, 2010	Baton Rouge	LSU	43	Mississippi	36
November 19, 2011	Oxford	LSU	52	Mississippi	3

Notable Games

• 1959 - Billy Cannon's Halloween Night Run—Late in the game between #1 LSU and #3 Ole Miss, LSU was trailing 3-0. Then Billy Cannon returned a punt 89 yards for a TD, breaking seven tackles. The Rebels then drove down the field but were stopped on the LSU 1 yard line as the game ended resulting in a 7-3 victory for LSU in Tiger Stadium. The Rebels would get revenge however in the Sugar Bowl by whipping the Bayou Bengals 21-0 and were declared national champions by several polls.

• 1960 - LSU fought Ole Miss to a 6-6 tie which was the Johnny Rebs only blemish (9-0-1) en route to a 1960 National Title and were awarded the Grantland Rice trophy by the Football Writers Association of America.

• 1972 - Jones to Davis;. "The Night The Clock Stopped" -- #6 LSU survived an upset bid from unranked Ole Miss in Tiger Stadium by winning the game on a TD pass from QB Bert Jones to RB Brad Davis. Ole Miss fans say the 1972 contest featured a few seconds of free football. The Tigers trailed the Rebels 16-10 with four seconds to play and the ball on the Ole Miss ten yard line. After a short incompletion by Jones to Jimmy LeDoux at the goal line, the game clock still showed one second remaining. The Tigers used the precious second to win the game on the "last play," 17-16. The home-clock advantage inspired a sign at the Louisiana state line reading, "You are now entering Louisiana. Set your clocks back four seconds."

• 1989 - The 1989 contest in Oxford proved to have a much different flavor than most college football games. It was played on Nov. 4, one week removed from Ole Miss's Chucky Mullins career-ending injury. The student body passed buckets around the stadium to a then record crowd of 42,700 at Vaught-Hemingway stadium. In excess of $150,000 dollars was raised for the Mullins fund. A very emotional and passionate crowd watched as the Rebels nearly pulled off a miraculous comeback of 21 points against the Tigers, only to have the ball intercepted in the end zone in the waning seconds. LSU prevailed 35-30

• 1997 - The Rebels upset then #7 LSU 36-21 one week after the Tigers shocked the then top-ranked Florida Gators. It would spark a three game winning streak against the Tigers, including a thrilling overtime victory in 1998 (37-31).

• 2003 - Ole Miss entered the game an undefeated 6-0 in SEC conference play while LSU entered the game with only a loss to Florida. The winner of this game would represent the SEC West in the SEC Championship game in Atlanta. If Ole Miss won, they would be the outright SEC West champion and would go to Atlanta. If LSU won, both teams would be SEC West co-champions but LSU would go to Atlanta. LSU won the game, which was played before the then all-time record crowd to ever watch an on-campus football game in Mississippi. LSU then went on to win both the Southeastern Conference championship in Atlanta and the BCS national championship.

• 2008 - Ole Miss beat #18 LSU 31-13 in Baton Rouge to snap a 6-game losing streak to LSU and to win the first ever Magnolia Bowl trophy.

• 2009 - With 9 seconds remaining, down by 2 (25-23) on 4th and 26, LSU completes a 40-yard pass to the Ole Miss 6, and left one second on the clock. However, with no timeouts, they simply did not have enough time to execute any sort of play as time expired before LSU could even get off a snap. Oddly enough, LSU was attempting to spike the ball. Ole Miss prevailed for their first win at home against LSU since 1998(see 1997).

References

1. ^ OleMissSports.com: Ole Miss-LSU Football Rivalry Now The Magnolia Bowl