re: Trivia question: Top 10 matchups in Tiger Stadium history

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One oddity that I found in my brief research on this topic - LSU played OM at home in 1953, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 61, 62, 63 and 64. That's 10 out of 12 years (57 and 60 being played @ Ole Miss). I didn't go back further.

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From a purely historical perspective: Most of Mississippi was "dry" counties in the 1950s and 1960s, with the exceptions of "tourist" areas (ie: the Coast and specially designated areas in the other "dry" counties). With a lot of this persisting even in present day. You still have to exercise caution when drinking and preparing adult beverages at an Oxford tailgate in the present day.

Also, when it changed to a more rotating schedule most of the Ole Miss home games in the series were held in Jackson, MS and not Oxford (all through the 1960s, 70s and into the 1980s).

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One oddity that I found in my brief research on this topic - LSU played OM at home in 1953, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 61, 62, 63 and 64. That's 10 out of 12 years (57 and 60 being played @ Ole Miss). I didn't go back further.

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At that time, the Ole Miss stadium was not big, so LSU and Ole Miss agreed to play most games in Tiger Stadium and split the ticket sales 50-50. Ole Miss coach Johnny Vaught said he didn't mind playing so often in Tiger Stadium because he said the Rebels could beat the Tigers wherever they played.

I don’t think this was that uncommon back in the day. From what I was told, many schools on the schedule had small stadiums and didn’t draw large numbers of fans, even for larger schools. They made more $ from the visitors cut for a game at LSU than they made hosting the games so they agreed to play at LSU .

IIRC there was a similar arrangement with FSU during the late 70’s - early 80’s

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1987 Ohio State - day game

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I can still hear the sound of Tom Tupa punting the ball. Never heard it before or after, incredibly loud. For the youngsters, he was the punter as well, but I can't find any images of him punting.