1959 Ole Miss Rebels football team

1959 Ole Miss Rebels football
National champion (Berryman, Billingsley, Dunkel, Sagarin)[1]
Sugar Bowl champion
Sugar Bowl, W 21–0 vs. LSU
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 2
APNo. 2
Record10–1 (5–1 SEC)
Head coach
Home stadiumHemingway Stadium
Crump Stadium
Seasons
← 1958
1960 →
1959 Southeastern Conference football standings
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 college 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]

  1. ^ NCAA. "National Poll Champions" (PDF). 2020 NCAA Division I Football records. NCAA.org. p. 117. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
  2. ^ a b National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). "National Poll Champions" (PDF). 2012 NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA.org. p. 73. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
  3. ^ "Vaught passes away". CBS Interactive. February 4, 2006. Archived from the original on January 30, 2008. Retrieved March 23, 2013.