Magnolia Bowl: The Rebels’ oldest rivalry

Saturday will mark the 103rd game played between Ole Miss and LSU, a series that dates back to Dec. 3, 1894 when Ole Miss defeated LSU 26-6 in Baton Rouge. It was the second year that Ole Miss had a football team and the beginning of what would later become a heated rivalry known as the Magnolia Bowl.

“We have seen so many exciting games played between Ole Miss and LSU,” said Langston Rogers, assistant to the Ole Miss athletic director. “During one stretch of time, both teams were ranked in the Top 5 every time they met.”

In fact, the heart of the rivalry came from that stretch of games between 1958 and 1963. Only one team entered the matchup with more than one loss during that period— that…