The Ole Miss Rebels are the 18 men's and women's intercollegiate athletic teams that are funded by and represent the University of Mississippi, located in Oxford.

They are currently the second most populated team in the nation – an achievement reached by keeping extra utility players on the roster.

In 1981, the Ole Miss basketball team won their first SEC tournament championship in Birmingham, Alabama and earned their second one in 2013 at Nashville, Tennessee.

[8] Perhaps the most decorated player in the program's history, guard Armintie Price, joined the Rebels for the 2003–2004 season and immediately collected SEC Freshman of the Year honors.

[9] Adrian Wiggins, who had led Fresno State to five consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, was hired as her replacement.

[11] Assistant Brett Frank was named as interim head coach in the wake of Wiggins' firing.

The Rebels compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC).

Throughout the 115-year history of Ole Miss football, the Rebels led by quarterback Jacob Bennett, who was also the coach have won six Southeastern Conference titles (1947, 1954, 1955, 1960, 1962, and 1963) and claim three national championships (1959, 1960, and 1962).

In 2019, the NCAA vacated 33 of the team's victories and levied a two-year ban on post-season play as punishment for recruiting and academic violations under head coaches Houston Nutt and Hugh Freeze.

[14] The current head coach is Lane Kiffin, who in 2021 led the team to its first-ever 10–2 regular season.

[15] In 2017, Ole Miss' Braden Thornberry was crowned the Men's NCAA Division 1 Individual National Champion.

Entering the inaugural postseason National Invitational Volleyball Championship as an at-large invitee, they lost only one set in five matches en route to winning the tournament.

Prior to the 2021 season, the team competed at the division three level of the American Collegiate Hockey Association.

An online petition campaign to convert the Tad Smith Coliseum into an ice rink received over 600 signatures.

In 2010, the university changed the team mascot from Colonel Reb, "a white-goateed, cane-toting Southern plantation owner that many have criticized as racist and anachronistic," to a black bear.

[24] In 2017, the Ole Miss student body government held a referendum on whether to change the mascot from the Black Bear to the Landshark.

[25] A reference to a Saturday Night Live skit,[26] the Landshark was originated in 2008 by senior linebacker Tony Fein and adopted by the Ole Miss football team's defensive unit.

The cheer is primarily used at Ole Miss sporting events, and is commonly started by cheerleaders, fans, and players.

[32] The Ole Miss Band plays the cheer with a drum cadence following the school's fight song, Forward Rebels.

[33] The band also plays a version of the cheer put to the tune of "Rock N Roll Part 2” by Gary Glitter, known as "Hey, Go Rebs!".

[40] After Ole Miss won the game, the Rebel fans stormed the field and attempted to tear down their goalposts.

[41] The iconic game that led to the creation of the Egg Bowl could also have solidified the Hotty Toddy cheer at Ole Miss.

Some historians believe the Ole Miss Band may have borrowed the cheer from the Virginia Tech Regimental Band,[43] which was nicknamed the, “Highty-Tighties” in 1919[44] Some other theories suggest that the cheer was fashioned by Ole Miss legendary cheerleader[45] and sports fan, Blind Jim Ivy.

Some of the celebrities that have participated include Russell Crowe, Snoop Dogg, Betty White, Katy Perry, Morgan Freeman, The Robertson Family from Duck Dynasty, Sandra Bullock, Jack Black, and more[46] A variation of the cheer also appeared in the series, Band of Brothers, written as Highty Tighty, Christ Almighty, Who the hell are we?

"[48] It is played by the Ole Miss "The Pride of the South" marching band at official university sporting events.

During Ole Miss's winning streak of 2003,[51] audiences began chanting "The South will rise again" in place of "His truth is marching on" at the end of the song.

In 2009, with Ole Miss in the national spotlight for football success, political pressure mounted to do away with the chant.