1959 Ole Miss Rebels football team

1959 Ole Miss Rebels football
1959 Ole Miss Rebels football
National Champion (Berryman, Billingsley, Dunkel, Sagarin); Sugar Bowl champion
Sugar Bowl, W 21–0 vs. LSU
Conference	Southeastern Conference
Ranking
Coaches	No. 2
AP	No. 2
Record	10–1 (5–1 SEC)
Head coach	Johnny Vaught (13th season);
Home stadium	Hemingway Stadium ; Crump Stadium
	Seasons ← 1958 1960 →

1959 Southeastern Conference football standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 5 Georgia $	7	–	0	–	0	10	–	1	–	0
No. 3 LSU	5	–	1	–	0	9	–	2	–	0
No. 2 Ole Miss #	5	–	1	–	0	10	–	1	–	0
No. 10 Alabama	4	–	1	–	2	7	–	2	–	2
Auburn	4	–	3	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
Vanderbilt	3	–	2	–	2	5	–	3	–	2
Georgia Tech	3	–	3	–	0	6	–	5	–	0
Tennessee	3	–	4	–	1	5	–	4	–	1
No. 19 Florida	2	–	4	–	0	5	–	4	–	1
Kentucky	1	–	6	–	0	4	–	6	–	0
Tulane	0	–	5	–	1	3	–	6	–	1
Mississippi State	0	–	7	–	0	2	–	7	–	0

$ – Conference champion ^# Berryman, Billingsley, Dunkel, Sagarin national champion Rankings from AP Poll

The 1959 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1959 NCAA University Division football season. Ole Miss finished the season with an overall record of ten wins and one loss (10–1), tied for second in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and with a victory over LSU in the Sugar Bowl. The team gave up only 21 points all season, and were retroactively named national champions by Berryman, Billingsley, Dunkel and Sagarin (however, it is not recognized by the NCAA).^[2] Syracuse was crowned as the national champion by both the AP and the UPI wire services.^[2] The team was later rated the third best squad from 1956 to 1995 by Sagarin.^[3]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 19	at Houston*	No. 8	Rice Stadium Houston, TX	W 16–0	45,000	^[4]
September 26	at Kentucky	No. 4	McLean Stadium Lexington, KY	W 16–0	33,000	^[5]
October 3	No. 11 (small) Memphis State*	No. 3	Hemingway Stadium Oxford, MS (rivalry)	W 43–0	12,500	^[6]
October 10	at Vanderbilt	No. 5	Dudley Field Nashville, TN (rivalry)	W 33–0	25,000	^[7]
October 17	Tulane	No. 5	Hemingway Stadium Oxford, MS (rivalry)	W 53–7	23,500	^[8]
October 24	vs. No. 10 Arkansas*	No. 4	Crump Stadium Memphis, TN (rivalry)	W 28–0	32,004	^[9]
October 31	at No. 1 LSU	No. 3	Tiger Stadium Baton Rouge, LA (rivalry)	L 3–7	67,327	^[10]
November 7	No. 18 (small) Chattanooga*	No. 5	Hemingway Stadium Oxford, MS	W 58–0	14,500	^[11]
November 14	vs. No. 9 Tennessee	No. 5	Crump Stadium Memphis, TN (rivalry)	W 37–7	32,515	^[12]
November 28	at Mississippi State	No. 2	Scott Field Starkville, MS (Egg Bowl)	W 42–0	34,000	^[13]
January 1, 1960	vs. No. 3 LSU*	No. 2	Tulane Stadium New Orleans, LA (Sugar Bowl)	W 21–0	81,141	^[14]
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game