The Razorbacks and Rebels also met twice in the Sugar Bowl played in New Orleans, in 1963 and 1970; both contests were won by Ole Miss.

Upon the conclusion of the 2007 regular season, Arkansas Razorbacks coach Houston Nutt was forced to resign amid several controversies and allegations that had arisen.

[4][5] Hours later, he was announced as the head coach of the Ole Miss Rebels football team,[6] replacing Ed Orgeron who had been fired after three consecutive losing seasons.

Ole Miss 17 – Arkansas 13 The January 1, 1963 Sugar Bowl in New Orleans was played between the two teams as an end to the 1962 regular season.

After each team kicked field goals, Ole Miss scored the first touchdown, a 33-yard strike from Glynn Griffing to Louis Guy gave the Rebels a 10–3 lead.

Ole Miss won the game 17–13 to finish the season 10–0 and win a share of the 1962 national championship in college football.

[18] Razorback fullback Mark Pierce ran in from one yard away to take a 17–10 Arkansas lead in the fourth quarter, but Eli Manning connected with Jamie Armstead to send the game into overtime.

[18] Eli Manning responded with an 11-yard touchdown pass, sending the game to a second overtime, in which neither team would score.

[18] Manning hit his tight end Doug Zeigler from twelve yards out, and failed the two point pass.

[16] In the sixth overtime, Zeigler again caught a Manning aerial, and Ole Miss connected on the two-point conversion with a Charles Stackhouse rush, taking a 50–42 lead.

[18] Razorback Pierce ran in from two yards out, and Arkansas completed the tying two-point conversion on a Jones pass.

Arkansas 29 – Ole Miss 24 When the two teams met on October 22, 2011, in Oxford, they seemed to be heading in different directions.

Arkansas was ranked in the top ten, fresh off two top-15 victories, while the Rebels were winless in the SEC with coach Houston Nutt on the hot seat.

The Rebels, however, surprised the Razorbacks by opening up a 17–0 lead in the second quarter behind quarterback Randall Mackey.

Arkansas added a field goal in the fourth quarter before the Rebels rallied: Ole Miss closed within 29–24 late in the game and was able to recover an onside kick.

The win was Arkansas's second in a row in the series, and it was Houston Nutt's final game against his former team.

Arkansas 53 – Ole Miss 52 The November 7, 2015, contest in Oxford between the two teams was a hard-fought offensive battle in which Arkansas largely abandoned its previous ground-and-pound style for a more pass-intensive offensive philosophy in which quarterback Brandon Allen threw for a career-high 442 yards and six touchdowns.

Arkansas and Ole Miss scored exactly the same in each of the individual four quarters of regulation time leading up to overtime.

After the Ole Miss touchdown, and while on defense, Arkansas kept the game from ending on a fourth-and-25 play in which quarterback Brandon Allen completed a pass to Hunter Henry, who saw that he was going to be tackled, and flung the ball backwards as a lateral towards running back Alex Collins.

The first attempt appeared to result in a quarterback sack and a victory for the Rebels, but Ole Miss' Marquis Haynes was called for an obvious face-mask penalty, which gave the Razorbacks another chance.

For Ole Miss, the loss meant they no longer controlled their own destiny in the SEC West for the 2015 season as they had previously coming into the game.

Ole Miss was looking for a measure of revenge after the previous season's overtime loss to Arkansas, which effectively knocked the Rebels out of contention for the SEC Championship Game.

Allen was helped by sophomore running back Rawleigh Williams III's 180 yards rushing, and a strong performance from Arkansas' defense, which held Ole Miss to a season low 30 points, and kept QB Chad Kelly from amassing his 2015 offensive totals.

It appeared that Kelley had the first, but he was hit hard by Arkansas safety Santos Ramirez, and the ball popped out of Kelly's grasp and rolled out of bounds behind the line to gain.

Arkansas was picked to finish 3rd in the SEC West and climbed up to #10 following a 3–0 start, but lost their next 3 games to Texas A&M, Alabama, and Mississippi State and finished 7–6, although they did win the Liberty Bowl in a 55–53 triple-overtime shootout against Kansas to get their 2nd bowl win in a row under Coach Pittman.

Ole Miss was predicted to finish 4th in the SEC West but started out 7–0 and actually led the division after Alabama lost to Tennessee.