The University of Mississippi Athletics
Rundown of Ole Miss Future Football Schedules
2/19/2015 | Football, Blog
Ole Miss and Cal will play a home-and-home football series in 2017 and 2019, the schools and ESPN announced Thursday. It marks the Rebels' first matchup with a Pac-12 school in football and will be only the program's second visit to the Golden State, having traveled to Fresno State in 2011.
With the addition of Cal, Ole Miss now has matchups against other Power Five schools in seven of the next 11 years:
2016 vs. Florida State in Orlando
2017 at Cal
2019 vs. Cal
2022 at Georgia Tech
2023 vs. Georgia Tech
2024 at Wake Forest
2025 vs. Wake Forest
The neutral-site matchup against Florida State marks the first time the Rebels will play a power-five conference team in the regular season since a home-and-home with Texas in 2012 and 2013.
Ole Miss continues to work toward finding matchups for the 2018, 2020 and 2021 season, which would satisfy a new Southeastern Conference strength-of-schedule component that requires all schools to play an ACC, Big 12, Big Ten or Pac-12 opponent on an annual basis, a component that goes into effect in 2016.
Here's a rundown of other scheduling news:
Ole Miss announced the dates for the Rebels' nonconference opponents for 2016:
Sept. 5 vs. Florida State in Orlando
Sept. 10 vs. Wofford
Oct. 1 vs. Memphis
Nov. 5 vs. Georgia Southern
Ole Miss also announced the movement of nonconference matchups of a road game at Memphis, from 2017 to 2019, and a home game against Tulane, from 2017 to 2019, and the addition of nonconference matchups, all home games, against Tennessee-Martin (2017), Southeastern Louisiana (2019) and Tulane (2025).
The road game at Memphis in 2019 marks the fourth game of a four-year contract to renew the football series, a series resumed with a home game in 2014 and will continue with a road game in 2015 and another home game in 2016.
For more, check out Ole Miss Future Football Schedules.
