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Ole Miss football will probably stop playing Memphis after 2019. Here's why.

No, it's not because the Rebs blew that game in the Liberty Bowl last season.

Speaking at a Rebel Road Trip stop in Jackson on Tuesday night, Ole Miss AD Ross Bjork said that the current football series with Memphis—a four-game set that began in 2014 and will end in 2019—will be the last scheduled meetings between the two schools "in the foreseeable future."

"Once we finish in 2019—the last game [in Memphis]—the likelihood of extending on the football side will be difficult to achieve," Bjork confirmed to SEC Country.

It's natural to assume this has something to do with the events of Oct.