We completed our Greatest Games from Every Season series this offseason and shockingly, Ole Miss featured heavily in it. We chose a time period starting in 1958, so in the past 60 years, the greatest game from the season was played against Ole Miss nine times.
That’s more than any other opponent. Beating Ole Miss has been an LSU tradition for as long as any of us can remember, even if the series lost much of its intensity in the 1980s and 90s due to Ole Miss spending most of that period in the football wilderness.
But as soon as Ole Miss became a viable program again, the rivalry ramped right back up.