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| First meeting | October 20, 1928 Ole Miss, 19–0 |
|---|---|
| Latest meeting | October 21, 2023 Ole Miss, 28–21 |
| Next meeting | 2026 |
| Statistics | |
| Meetings total | 48 |
| All-time series | Auburn leads, 35–12[1] |
| Largest victory | Auburn, 41–0 (1985) |
| Longest win streak | Auburn, 9 (1971–1991) |
| Current win streak | Ole Miss, 2 (2022–present) |
TheAuburn–Ole Miss football rivalry is acollege footballrivalry[2] game between theTigers ofAuburn University and theRebels of theUniversity of Mississippi.
Both founding members of theSoutheastern Conference, Auburn and Ole Miss first met on October 20, 1928, inBirmingham, Alabama with Ole Miss winning the game by a score of 19–0.[3] After a 14–7 Auburn victory in 1932, the teams didn't meet again until 1949, when the Rebels defeated the Tigers by a score of 40–7. They have met in two bowl games, with Ole Miss winning the1965 Liberty Bowl by a margin of 13–7[4] and Auburn winning the1971 Gator Bowl by a score of 35–28.[5] The Gator victory marked the beginning of the longest winning streak in the series, with Auburn winning nine straight between 1971 and 1991. Auburn and Ole Miss have met every year since 1990 and, with the SEC placing both Auburn and Ole Miss in the West division in 1992, the teams will continue to meet annually.[6]
The rivalry took a heated turn in 1999 when then-Ole Miss head coachTommy Tuberville, after stating days prior that he would only leave Ole Miss "in a pine box", accepted the head coaching position at Auburn.[7] Shortly thereafter, some began to refer to the annual Auburn–Ole Miss football matchup as the Pine Box Bowl. In the first matchup between the squads after Tuberville's departure for Auburn, the Rebels defeated Auburn by a score of 24–17 in overtime.[8] Since the 1999 contest, Ole Miss has defeated Auburn only five times, the most recent of which came in the form of a 28–21 win in 2023.[9]
| Auburn victories | Ole Miss victories | Tie games |
| No. | Date | Location | Winning team | Losing team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 20, 1928 | Birmingham, AL | Ole Miss | 19 | Auburn | 0 | ||
| 2 | October 29, 1932 | Montgomery, AL | Auburn | 14 | Ole Miss | 7 | ||
| 3 | September 23, 1949 | Montgomery, AL | Ole Miss | 40 | Auburn | 7 | ||
| 4 | November 10, 1951 | Mobile, AL | Ole Miss | 39 | Auburn | 14 | ||
| 5 | October 4, 1952 | Memphis, TN | #18 Ole Miss | 20 | Auburn | 7 | ||
| 6 | October 3, 1953 | Auburn, AL | Auburn | 13 | Ole Miss | 0 | ||
| 7 | December 18, 1965 | Memphis, TN | Ole Miss | 13 | Auburn | 7 | ||
| 8 | January 2, 1971 | Jacksonville, FL | #10 Auburn | 35 | Ole Miss | 28 | ||
| 9 | October 7, 1972 | Jackson, MS | #17 Auburn | 19 | #18 Ole Miss | 13 | ||
| 10 | October 6, 1973 | Auburn, AL | Auburn | 14 | Ole Miss | 7 | ||
| 11 | October 2, 1976 | Jackson, MS | Auburn | 10 | Ole Miss | 0 | ||
| 12 | October 1, 1977 | Auburn, AL | Auburn | 21 | Ole Miss | 15 | ||
| 13 | October 6, 1984 | Oxford, MS | #18 Auburn | 17 | Ole Miss | 13 | ||
| 14 | October 5, 1985 | Auburn, AL | #14 Auburn | 41 | Ole Miss | 0 | ||
| 15 | September 15, 1990 | Jackson, MS | #2 Auburn | 24 | Ole Miss | 10 | ||
| 16 | September 14, 1991 | Auburn, AL | #15 Auburn | 23 | Ole Miss | 13 | ||
| 17 | September 5, 1992 | Oxford, MS | Ole Miss | 45 | Auburn | 21 | ||
| 18 | September 2, 1993 | Auburn, AL | Auburn | 16 | Ole Miss | 12 | ||
| 19 | September 3, 1994 | Oxford, MS | #12 Auburn | 22 | Ole Miss | 17 | ||
| 20 | September 2, 1995 | Auburn, AL | #6 Auburn | 46 | Ole Miss | 13 | ||
| 21 | September 14, 1996 | Oxford, MS | #15 Auburn | 45 | Ole Miss | 28 | ||
| 22 | September 13, 1997 | Auburn, AL | #16 Auburn | 19 | Ole Miss | 9 | ||
| 23 | September 12, 1998 | Oxford, MS | Auburn | 17 | Ole Miss | 0 | ||
| 24 | September 25, 1999 | Auburn, AL | Ole Miss | 24 | Auburn | 17 | ||
| 25 | September 9, 2000 | Oxford, MS | Auburn | 35 | Ole Miss | 27 | ||
| 26 | September 8, 2001 | Auburn, AL | Auburn | 27 | Ole Miss | 21 | ||
| 27 | November 2, 2002 | Oxford, MS | Auburn | 31 | Ole Miss | 24 | ||
| 28 | November 8, 2003 | Auburn, AL | #20 Ole Miss | 24 | Auburn | 20 | ||
| 29 | October 30, 2004 | Oxford, MS | #3 Auburn | 35 | Ole Miss | 14 | ||
| 30 | October 29, 2005 | Auburn, AL | #19 Auburn | 27 | Ole Miss | 3 | ||
| 31 | October 28, 2006 | Oxford, MS | #7 Auburn | 23 | Ole Miss | 17 | ||
| 32 | October 27, 2007 | Auburn, AL | #23 Auburn | 17 | Ole Miss | 3 | ||
| 33 | November 1, 2008 | Oxford, MS | Ole Miss | 17 | Auburn | 7 | ||
| 34 | October 31, 2009 | Auburn, AL | Auburn | 33 | Ole Miss | 20 | ||
| 35 | October 30, 2010 | Oxford, MS | #1 Auburn | 51 | Ole Miss | 31 | ||
| 36 | October 29, 2011 | Auburn, AL | #23 Auburn | 41 | Ole Miss | 23 | ||
| 37 | October 13, 2012 | Oxford, MS | Ole Miss† | 41 | Auburn | 20 | ||
| 38 | October 5, 2013 | Auburn, AL | Auburn | 30 | Ole Miss | 22 | ||
| 39 | November 1, 2014 | Oxford, MS | #3 Auburn | 35 | #4 Ole Miss | 31 | ||
| 40 | October 31, 2015 | Auburn, AL | #19 Ole Miss | 27 | Auburn | 19 | ||
| 41 | October 29, 2016 | Oxford, MS | #15 Auburn | 40 | Ole Miss | 29 | ||
| 42 | October 7, 2017 | Auburn, AL | #12 Auburn | 44 | Ole Miss | 23 | ||
| 43 | October 20, 2018 | Oxford, MS | Auburn | 31 | Ole Miss | 16 | ||
| 44 | November 2, 2019 | Auburn, AL | #11 Auburn | 20 | Ole Miss | 14 | ||
| 45 | October 24, 2020 | Oxford, MS | Auburn | 35 | Ole Miss | 28 | ||
| 46 | October 30, 2021 | Auburn, AL | #18 Auburn | 31 | #10 Ole Miss | 20 | ||
| 47 | October 15, 2022 | Oxford, MS | #9 Ole Miss | 48 | Auburn | 34 | ||
| 48 | October 21, 2023 | Auburn, AL | #13 Ole Miss | 28 | Auburn | 21 | ||
| Series: Auburn leads 35–12[1] | ||||||||
| † 2012 game vacated by Ole Miss[10] | ||||||||
