Mississippi Rebels Football

The Mississippi Rebels Football is a team that is part of the University of Mississippi’s athletics program. It is a member of the NCAA Division I with the football teams playing in the Football Bowl Subdivision championship. It is a member of the Southeastern Conference, which it has dominated in a number of sports, including football. The current athletics director of this university’s program is Ross Bjork, with the university itself located at the Oxford, Mississippi. The program is home to eighteen teams, of which the football team draws the most visitors via Mississippi Rebels Football tickets.

The Mississippi Rebels Football team plays at the Vaught–Hemingway Stadium and the Hollingsworth Field. Its mascot is the Rebel Black Bear, and the team is often fondly known as the Rebels. Its official colors are blue and crimson. It was originally known as the Mississippi Flood, and was renamed in 1936. The football team itself has been playing since 1890, having dominated college football for over a century. The head coach of the football team is High Freeze with the team often practicing at the Jerry Hollingsworth Field. Their stadium, the Vaught–Hemingway Stadium, was built in 1915 and has a capacity of over sixty thousand.

They are the members of the Southeastern Conference, and has been since 1932, and the larger NCAA Division I FBS. It is a member of the SEC Western Division and has an all time record of 628–492–35. It has a 22–12–0 postseason bowl record and is the proud owner of three National titles; the first of these was won in 1959, the second in 1960 and the third in 1962. It is also the proud owner of six Conference titles, which were won in 1947, 1954, 1955, 1960, 1962 and 1963. It has also won two Division title and eleven of their players have won the All–Americans honor.

They have a fierce rivalry with the Mississippi State Bulldogs and the LSU Tigers, a rivalry that often results in very exciting games. This is a football team that is the oldest in the state and ranks as one of the all time winning programs in college football. In 2008, they won their six hundredth match when they defeated number four college football team in the nation, the Florida Gators, at the Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, located at Gainesville, Florida. This was a game that marked over a century of quality football, played by a team often ranked as one of the best in the nation and that has produced players who have been honored as All–Americans and gone on to wow many in pro football, in many an NFL franchise and other pro football teams. With six Southeastern Conference Championships to their name and three National Championships, they are definitely one of the teams to buy Mississippi Rebels Football tickets and catch live at their next game.