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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Ole Miss Football Weekly Press Release
10/29/2000 | Football
Oct. 29, 2000
Ole Miss vs. Arkansas Football Release
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Game 8 - Ole Miss Rebels (5-2, 2-2 SEC)
at Arkansas Razorbacks (4-3, 1-3 SEC)
GAMEDAY INFORMATION
DATE: Saturday, November 4, 2000
TIME: 1:00 p.m. (CDT)
SITE: Reynolds Razorback Stadium (50,000)
TV: None
RADIO: Ole Miss Radio Network (David Kellum, play-by-play, Pete Cordelli, color analyst, Stan Sandroni, sideline reporter, Gary Darby, pre-game host).
RECORDS: Ole Miss improved to 5-2 overall with a 43-40 overtime win over UNLV this past Saturday in Oxford. The Rebels are 2-2 in SEC play. Arkansas fell to 4-3 and 1-3 in the SEC with a 21-19 loss at Auburn this past weekend.
RANKINGS: Ole Miss was ranked in neither of last week's two major college football polls. The Rebels did, however, receive votes, tallying 18 votes in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Top 25, and four in The Associated Press Top 25. Arkansas was unranked in both polls.
COACHES: David Cutcliffe is in his second full season as head coach of the Ole Miss Rebels. He is 14-6 at Ole Miss and has guided the Rebels to victories in the 1998 and 1999 Sanford Independence Bowls. He made his Ole Miss debut and recorded his first career win in the Rebels' 35-18 win over Texas Tech in the 1998 Sanford Independence Bowl. Ole Miss is Cutcliffe's first career head coaching assignment. This will be Cutcliffe's second meeting against Arkansas and Razorback head coach Houston Nutt. He is 1-0 against both Arkansas and Nutt ... Houston Nutt is in his third season at Arkansas. He is 21-10 with the Razorbacks and 57-32 overall in eight seasons as a collegiate head coach. Nutt went 31-16 in four seasons at Murray State (1993-96) and 5-6 in one year at Boise State (1997) before going to Arkansas. Nutt is 1-1 against Ole Miss and 0-1 against Cutcliffe.
SERIES INFO
Arkansas leads 23-22-1
Last meeting: Ole Miss won 38-16 last season in Oxford.
In Oxford: Ole Miss 4-0
In Fayetteville: Arkansas 5-0
Other Sites: 18-18-1 (Jackson, Miss.: 4-4, Little Rock, Ark.: Ole Miss 7-6-1, Memphis, Tenn.: Arkansas 8-5, New Orleans, La.: Ole Miss 2-0 (1963, 1969 Sugar Bowls).
Largest UM win: 28-0 in Memphis 1953 and 1959
Largest UA win: 34-0 in Fayetteville, 1998
Longest UM win streak: 6, 1958-1969
Longest UA win streak: 5, 1985-1989
NOTES: Arkansas records indicate the Razorbacks lead the series 24-21-1, claiming a victory in a 1914 game that Ole Miss won 13-7. The two teams met almost yearly from 1937-1969, before the series took a break until 1981. Ole Miss and Arkansas have played yearly since then, and Ole Miss is 7-11-1 against the Razorbacks since the series resumed. The Rebels went 6-4 against Arkansas in the 1990s, though the Razorbacks have won four of the last six meetings.
