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How often has Ole Miss football scored 59 or more points?
Photo courtesy of Robert Jordan / Ole Miss communications
By: Tom Freeland, HottyToddy.com, Blogger
Not often. The last time we scored 59 or more against a team that wasn’t Louisana-Monroe (who we beat 59-0 in 2008 and 59-14 in 2003) was 1994 against Southern Ill.
Before that:
1980 Memphis St. 61-7
1979 Vandy 63-28
1969 Southern 69-7 (paid for that one the next year, perhaps?). This was the only one Coach Vaught ran up like that; to get previous ones you have to go back to the 20s and 30s, when we bullied around Memphis (92-0 in 1935 and 82-0 in 1921) and Union (64-0 in 1930 and 86-0 in 1920, along with a horrifying 114-0 in 1904). The only other is St. Thomas Hall in 1894, 62-0 (St. Thomas Hall?).
Haters may ask, so, how often does this happen to Ole Miss. Since 1940, not often. 2012, Texas 66-33, 1980 Alabama 51-35, and (Archie Manning playing with a broken arm), LSU 1970, 61-17. Of course, back at the dawn of time, Sewanee beat us 69-17 (in 1917), but this is back when Sewanee was a major Southeastern football power.
Read more blog posts by Tom Freeland at his NMissCommentor blog page.
| Sat, Aug 31 |  | vs Furman | W, 76-0 |
| Sat, Sep 7 |  | vs Middle Tennessee | W, 52-3 |
| Sat, Sep 14 |  | @ Wake Forest | W, 40-6 |
| Sat, Sep 21 |  | vs Georgia Southern | W, 52-13 |
| Sat, Sep 28 |  | vs Kentucky | L, 20-17 |
| Sat, Oct 5 |  | @ South Carolina | W, 27-3 |
| Sat, Oct 12 |  | vs LSU | L, 29-26 (2 OT) |
| Sat, Oct 26 |  | vs Oklahoma | W, 26-14 |
| Sat, Nov 2 |  | @ Arkansas | W, 63-35 |
| Sat, Nov 16 |  | vs Georgia | W, 28-10 |
| Sat, Nov 23 |  | @ Florida | L, 24-17 |
| Sat, Nov 30 |  | vs Mississippi State | W, 26-14 |
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