Ole Miss will get another shot at making College GameDay feel like a home-field advantage.
ESPN’s pregame show is headed back to Oxford on Saturday for the Rebels’ matchup with LSU, giving Ole Miss its seventh all-time appearance at a GameDay site. The Rebels didn’t get their first chance until 2014, more than 20 years after the show began traveling to campuses in 1993, but they’ve done plenty with the opportunities that followed.
Ole Miss is 3-3 overall when playing at the host site. When GameDay has been in Oxford, the Rebels are unbeaten at 2-0.
The first one is still the one people remember. On Oct.
4, 2014, No. 11 Ole Miss hosted No.
3 Alabama in The Grove, and the Rebels came back for a 23-17 win. That game ended with a field storming inside Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, goal posts making their way through Oxford and Katy Perry celebrating at Funky’s afterward.
The Rebels were back in the spotlight almost immediately. Just three weeks later, GameDay went to Baton Rouge for Ole Miss’ Oct. 25 meeting with No.
24 LSU. Ranked No. 3 at the time, the Rebels dropped a 10-7 decision and took their first loss of the season.
The next road trip turned into another huge night. On Sept.
19, 2015, No. 15 Ole Miss went to Tuscaloosa and beat No.
2 Alabama, 43-37. It was the Rebels’ second all-time win in Tuscaloosa and gave them consecutive victories over Alabama for the first time in program history.
After that, Ole Miss had to wait six years before GameDay returned to Oxford. The Rebels made that one count, too, beating No.
11 Texas A&M, 29-19, on Nov. 13, 2021.
The two most recent GameDay appearances both came in Athens, and both went against Ole Miss. In 2023, No.
10 Ole Miss fell 52-17 to No. 2 Georgia.
Two years later, the Rebels lost again to Georgia, 43-35. That second defeat was Ole Miss’ only regular-season loss, and the Rebels later got even by beating Georgia in the Sugar Bowl, which was a CFP quarterfinal game.
This year’s meeting has a different kind of spotlight attached to it. LSU and Ole Miss are ranked seventh and eighth, respectively, in the AP Top 25, and it’s the first time since 1962 that both teams have been in the AP top 10 for the same matchup. Both teams were in the top 10 of the Coaches Poll in 2024 when LSU beat Ole Miss in Baton Rouge.
Ole Miss’ history in GameDay games: Oct.
25, 2014: Baton Rouge, La. - No. 24 LSU 10, No.
3 Ole Miss 7
Sept. 19, 2015: Tuscaloosa, Ala. - No.
15 Ole Miss 43, No. 2 Alabama 37
Nov. 13, 2021: Oxford, Miss. - No.
15 Ole Miss 29, No. 11 Texas A&M 19
Nov. 11, 2023: Athens, Ga. - No.
2 Georgia 52, No. 10 Ole Miss 17
Oct. 18, 2025: Athens, Ga. - No.
7 Georgia 43, No. 5 Ole Miss 35
Sept. 19, 2026: Oxford, Miss. - No.
8 Ole Miss vs. No.
7 LSU
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