Egg Bowl
| Sport | Football |
|---|---|
| First meeting | October 28, 1901 Mississippi State 17, Ole Miss 0 |
| Latest meeting | November 26, 2016 Mississippi State 55, Ole Miss 20 |
| Next meeting | November 23, 2017 |
| Trophy | Golden Egg |
| Statistics | |
| Meetings total | 113 total, 89 Egg Bowls |
| All-time series | Ole Miss leads, 63–44–6 |
| Largest victory | Mississippi State, 65–0 (1915) |
| Longest win streak | Mississippi State, 13 (1911–1925) |
| Current win streak | Mississippi State, 1 (2016–present) |
The Battle for the Golden Egg, also informally known as the Egg Bowl, is an American college football rivalry game played annually between Southeastern Conference members Mississippi State University and Ole Miss (The University of Mississippi). The rivalry is the tenth longest uninterrupted series in the United States. The two teams first played each other in 1901. Since 1927 the winning squad has been awarded possession of the "Golden Egg Trophy". In cases where the game ended in a tie the previous winner retained possession of the trophy. Ole Miss leads the series, 63–44–6.
The game is a typical example of the intrastate rivalries between several public universities. These games are usually between one bearing the state's name alone, and the land-grant university, often styled as "State University." Like most such rivalries, it is contested at the end of the regular season, in this case during the Thanksgiving weekend and has been played on Thanksgiving 21 times, including from 1998–2003 and in 2013 (and again in 2017 and 2018).
The first game in the series was played on October 28, 1901 at Mississippi State. Mississippi State, then known as the Mississippi A&M College and nicknamed the Aggies, defeated Ole Miss, nicknamed the Red and Blue at that time, by a final score of 17–0. The two squads met on the gridiron every year from 1901 until 1911 and then, after a 3-year hiatus, resumed the series in 1915; since that 1915 meeting the two teams have met on the field every season with the exception of the 1943 season when neither school fielded teams due to World War II. From 1973 through 1990 the game was played at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson, which seats approximately 62,000. Besides being centrally located in the state, at the time it was the only venue in the state capable of seating the anticipated crowd; for many years Vaught–Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, seated only about 32,000 and Scott Field in Starkville, seated only about 31,000. Both have been considerably expanded and are now capable of accommodating the crowds which can realistically be expected, and both on-campus venues have been continually upgraded to the point where they are superior in amenities to Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium.
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