1974 Ole Miss Rebels football team

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1974 Ole Miss Rebels football
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
1974 record3–8 (0–6 SEC)
Head coach
Home stadiumHemingway Stadium
Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium
Seasons
← 1973
1975 →
1974 Southeastern Conference football standings
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 5 Alabama $ 6 – 0 – 0 11 – 1 – 0
No. 8 Auburn 4 – 2 – 0 10 – 2 – 0
Georgia 4 – 2 – 0 6 – 6 – 0
No. 17 Mississippi State 3 – 3 – 0 9 – 3 – 0
No. 15 Florida 3 – 3 – 0 8 – 4 – 0
Kentucky 3 – 3 – 0 6 – 5 – 0
No. 20 Tennessee 2 – 3 – 1 7 – 3 – 2
Vanderbilt 2 – 3 – 1 7 – 3 – 2
LSU 2 – 4 – 0 5 – 5 – 1
Ole Miss 0 – 6 – 0 3 – 8 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1974 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in the 1974 NCAA Division I football season.[1] The Rebels were led by first-year head coach Ken Cooper and played their home games at Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi and Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson. The team competed as a member of the Southeastern Conference, finishing in last. The Rebels opened the season with an upset of Missouri,[2] but the rest of the season went very poorly, as the team went winless in conference play and finished with a record of 3–8, the school's first losing season since 1949.

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 14No. 18 Missouri*
W 10–0
September 21at Memphis State*
L 7–15
September 28Southern Miss*
W 20–14[3]
October 5No. 3 Alabama
  • Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium
  • Jackson, MS (rivalry)
L 21–35
October 12at Georgia
L 0–49
October 19South Carolina*
  • Hemingway Stadium
  • Oxford, MS
L 7–10
October 26at Vanderbilt
L 14–24
November 2at LSU
L 0–24
November 16vs. Tennessee
  • Memphis Memorial Stadium
  • Memphis, TN
L 17–29
November 23vs. Mississippi State
  • Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium
  • Jackson, MS (Egg Bowl)
L 13–31
November 30at Tulane*
W 26–1021,628[4]
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References[]

  1. ^ "1974 Ole Miss Rebels Schedule and Results".
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-08-04. Retrieved 2017-11-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Ole Miss storms back to trim Southern 20–14". The Clarion-Ledger. September 29, 1974. Retrieved March 23, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Ole Miss Rebs calm Tulane Green Wave". Clarion-Ledger. December 1, 1974. Retrieved October 18, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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