Magnolia Bowl
Teams	LSU Tigers Ole Miss Rebels
Originated	1894
Series	LSU leads 55-39-4
Largest Margin of Victory	LSU 46, Ole Miss 0 November 7, 1901
Highest Scoring Game	Ole Miss 49, LSU 19 October 30, 1948
Most Recent Game	Ole Miss 25, LSU 23 November 21, 2009
1896 1901 1902 1904 1907 1909 1915 1916 1917 1919 1921 1926 1928 1929 1930 1931 1933 1934 1936 1937 1942 1945 1946 1949 1950 1958 1959 1961 1964 1970 1972 1973 1974 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1982 1984 1985 1987 1988 1989 1991 1993 1995 1996 2000 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007	1894 1899 1903 1906 1912 1914 1927 1938 1939 1940 1941 1947 1948 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1960 1962 1963 1965 1966 1968 1969 1971 1975 1983 1986 1990 1992 1994 1997 1998 1999 2001 2008 2009
Ties (4)
1951 1960 1967 1981

The LSU-Ole Miss rivalry, more recently renamed the Magnolia Bowl,^[1] is a college football rivalry between Louisiana State University and the University of Mississippi. 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 1950's and 60's, 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 1970's and because LSU has seen new rivalries emerge with the SEC split in 1992, most notably Auburn, Alabama, and Florida. Recently the rivalry has again been gaining steam and publicity, due to mostly the 2003 Season when Ole Miss could have been a top ten team and go to the SEC Championship while LSU would have gone to the national championship depending on who won the game. Even when the rivalry had died down from the seventies, it still stirred up great passion in both Oxford and Baton Rouge. The recent reemergence of both programs, starting with LSU, has returned the national meaning to a rivalry already rich in tradition.

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.

[edit] Series Results

LSU leads the all time series, 55-39-4. 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 LSU and Mississippi. The Tigers won from 2002 to 2007, while the Rebels were able to defeat LSU from 1952 to 1957 and in 2008 and 2009.

[edit] Game results

Ole Miss and LSU face each other in 2007.

LSU victories shaded in ██ gold. Mississippi victories are shaded ██ red. Ties shaded white.

[edit] 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.

• 1960 - The rivals met twice, including the Sugar Bowl which saw the Rebels prevail 21-0 en route to the Football Writers’ national championship.

• 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. After a lengthy incompletion by Jones, 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."

• 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 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 one second left on the game clock, the score Ole Miss 25-23 and LSU on the Ole Miss 6-yard line, all LSU needed to do was kick a field goal for the win. Instead, they snapped the ball and then spiked it while the last second ticked off the clock. This preserved the win for Ole Miss in Oxford, Ole Miss' first win at home against LSU since 1998.

[edit] References

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