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Crimson Tide vs Ole Miss: Time Traveling Back to the Rebels’ Relevancy

By Chris Hale

Dec 22, 2015; Oxford, MS, USA; Mississippi Rebels head football coach Hugh Freeze talks with Mississippi athletic director Ross Bjork during a mens basketball game between the Rebels and the Troy Trojans at the Tad Smith Coliseum. Mississippi defeated Troy 83-80. Mandatory Credit: Spruce Derden-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 22, 2015; Oxford, MS, USA; Mississippi Rebels head football coach Hugh Freeze talks with Mississippi athletic director Ross Bjork during a mens basketball game between the Rebels and the Troy Trojans at the Tad Smith Coliseum. Mississippi defeated Troy 83-80. Mandatory Credit: Spruce Derden-USA TODAY Sports /
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The Alabama Crimson Tide will take on the Rebels on Saturday, so we thought it would be fun to look back at when Ole Miss last won a football title.

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If you wanted to go back to the last time the Alabama Crimson Tide won a title in football, your flying DeLorean wouldn’t need much plutonium to make the trip. Nine months isn’t that long ago.

For the Tide’s opponent this weekend, you better stock up. If we go back to the last time the Rebels won a title in football, we would have to go back to the year 1963 when they won a conference title. They won a national title the year before that.

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What were things like the last time this strange phenomenon happened for our neighbors in the Magnolia State? We got the answers so let’s take a quick trip back. We’ll just use 1962 for reference.

If you were planning to travel to Oxford, it’s possible you would have to take off from your $6,000 a year job to go. It would be wise to make sure you didn’t leave anything in your $15,000 home, although if you did forget, it would only cost 25 cents a gallon in gas to go back.

Since we are discussing gas stations, one might want to pick up a snack while you are there. You could grab a pack of chewing gum or a candy bar for a nickel, add a Coke for a dime, or splurge for an ice cream bar for 15 cents.

Most anyone making a trip the next day would want to relax in the comfort of their home the night before leaving. What was on television? Well, you couldn’t catch The Alfred Hitchcock Show or The Jack Parr Show because they both had their last episodes in 1962. But you did have two BRAND NEW shows to choose from!

On the way over to Oxford, you would have pulled your favorite crimson beauty closer to you to snuggle as you turn up the volume on your radio to hear this top single.

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Be sure to stop at Wal-Mart and stock up on chicken fingers and potato salad so you will fit in at “The Grove” if you are making the trip. Oh, by the way, the first Wally World opened in 1962 as well. Roll Tide, y’all!

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