Ole Miss Football Sets Grove Bowl for April 13

OXFORD, Miss. – (Release) Ole Miss Athletics announced that the 2024 Grove Bowl will be held Saturday, April 13, at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. The start of the annual event is set for 3 p.m. CT.

The Grove Bowl serves as the finale of the Rebels’ spring drills, which will begin on Wednesday. Fan events and general gameday information will be announced in the weeks ahead. Join our interest list and be the first to know as additional details are announced.

The Rebels enter the 2024 season ranked as high as No. 5 by Pro Football Focus and CBS Sports in some of their Way Too Early preseason rankings. The Rebels were projected No. 6 by 247Sports and No. 7 by ESPN and On3.

Ole Miss recently added a new infusion of talent to the 2024 roster, welcoming 31 mid-year enrollees to campus. The list of new Rebels joining the team for spring practice features 17 Division I transfers that 247Sports currently ranks as the No. 1 class in the team transfer rankings. Ole Miss claimed four of the top 50 available transfers, according to Rivals.

Ole Miss returns 60 letterwinners from last year’s squad that finished the season with an 11-2 mark, including a 38-25 win over No. 10 Penn State in the 2023 Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl. It was the first 11-win campaign in the 129-season history of Rebel football. The Rebels finished the 2023 season ranked No. 9, their highest final AP poll ranking since 1969 when they finished eighth.

The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl appearance was the fourth consecutive bowl bid under head coach Lane Kiffin and the Rebels second New Year’s Six bowl in the last three years. The Rebels once again ranked amongst the top of the nation in multiple offensive statistics in 2023. Ole Miss was No. 12 nationally in scoring offense (35.1) and No. 13 in total offense (461.9). The Rebels also led the nation with the fewest turnovers (7).

Courtesy of Ole Miss Athletics