Ole Miss Football Hosts Grove Bowl Games April 13
OXFORD, Miss. – (Release) In an exciting weekend on the Ole Miss campus, fans will have the opportunity to see Rebel football players compete in 7-on-7 action and various skills competitions in the Grove Bowl Games on Saturday, April 13, at 3 p.m. CT.
Admission is free at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium for the culmination of spring practices, and gates open at 2 p.m.
Free parking will be available west of the stadium throughout the day, including the SJB Pavilion garage, the coliseum lot and portions of the track lot. Reserved baseball lots, which are east of the stadium, will be reserved for fans with baseball parking passes.
All competition in the Grove Bowl Games will be offense vs. defense with points applied to the skills tests in addition to the scoring in the 7v7. More details on the event format will be released closer to the date.
The Grove Bowl Games will be streamed live on SEC Network+ (on the ESPN app) with an announcer team of Tom Hart and Jordan Rodgers. The Ole Miss Radio Network will also broadcast the festivities with David Kellum, Harry Harrison, John Darnell and Brett Norsworthy on the call.
Also part of the weekend will be an Ole Miss baseball home series against Mississippi State. The Rebels and Bulldogs begin the three-game set with a Friday night matchup at 7 p.m. (SECN), followed by Saturday at 7:30 (ESPN2) and Sunday at 1:30 (SECN+).
Other home events include the Ole Miss softball team’s three-game series with WKU — Friday at 6 p.m., Saturday at 3 and Sunday at 1 (all on SECN+). In addition, the women’s tennis squad faces Missouri Friday at 3 p.m. and Arkansas Sunday at 1.
Ole Miss enters the 2024 football season ranked as high as No. 5 by PFF and CBS in some of their Way Too Early preseason rankings. Coming off the program’s first 11-win campaign, the Rebels’ multiple star returnees are being joined by the nation’s No. 1 transfer class according to 247Sports.
Ole Miss football 2024 season tickets are on sale and available for renewal now at OleMissTix.com.
WEEKEND SCHEDULE
Friday, April 12 – Women’s Tennis vs. Missouri, 3 p.m.
Friday, April 12 – Softball vs. WKU, 6 p.m.
Friday, April 12 – Baseball vs. Mississippi State, 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 13 – Grove Bowl Games, 3 p.m.
Saturday, April 13 – Softball vs. WKU, 3 p.m.
Saturday, April 13 – Baseball vs. Mississippi State, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 14 – Softball vs. WKU, 1 p.m.
Sunday, April 14 – Women’s Tennis vs. Arkansas, 1 p.m.
Sunday, April 14 – Baseball vs. Mississippi State, 1:30 p.m.
GROVE BOWL GAMES FAN DETAILS
Stadium Entry
Gates open at 2 p.m. Please enter at the following gates based on the section you’d like to sit in:
— East Sideline – Gate 15 and 16
— South Suites – Gate 23
— West Sideline – Gates 33 and 36
— West Suites – Gate 35
Parking and Shuttles
Parking is available in Lots 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Click here to view the parking map. Shuttles will be available from these lots to Vaught-Hemingway Stadium starting at 1:30 p.m. Fans with a 2024 baseball parking pass are encouraged to park in their assigned parking lot for the Grove Bowl Games.
Team Store and Concessions
Ole Miss Authentics will be selling apparel and other merchandise in the southwest corner of the stadium and will be holding a spring clearance sale with as much as 75 percent off. Concession stands will be available on both sides of the stadium:
— East Side – Sections L and N
— West Side – Sections B and C
Premium Areas
Suite ticket holders who RSVP’d will receive their tickets on April 8 by 10 a.m. All other premium areas will be closed to private events.
Evelyn Van Pelt
Evelyn has covered sports for over two decades, beginning her journalism career as a sports writer for a newspaper in Austin, Texas. She attended Texas A&M and majored in English. Evelyn's love for Ole Miss began when her daughter Katie attended the university on a volleyball scholarship. Evelyn created the Rebel Walk in 2013 and has served as publisher and managing editor since its inception.