Music City Bowl, 2013Today, Tech and Ole Miss will match up in just the fifth matchup between the two schools. This fact is particularly remarkable when one realizes the two shared a conference for several decades. Really, what gives?
The shared history of Ole Miss and Georgia Tech, quite frankly, is a short one. Despite sharing a conference for 42 seasons, they only played each other twice in that span. One of those times, oddly enough, was a bowl game. Most Tech fans probably have at least some reason come to mind as why: William Alexander and Bobby Dodd didn’t want to travel, Tech liked home gate receipts, the Mississippi teams weren’t seen as competitively interesting or a rivalry or…
