The name Egg Bowl is used to refer to the annual football game between Mississippi State University and the University of Mississippi.

A century-old rivalry between the two college football teams from Mississippi will be renewed on November 23rd, with both teams ranked in the top 25. The game, nicknamed Egg Bowl by fans and players, will take place at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford. As a part of tradition, both teams’ mascots will place an egg in the middle of their respective side of the field before kickoff. The tradition began back in 1948 when a group of Ole Miss cheerleaders placed an egg on their side of the field as a prank against their rival school. Mississippi State University responded by placing an egg on their side as well, and so began one of college football’s most heated rivalries.

The Egg Bowl is one of only three games that are played every year between two Division I FBS schools (the other two being Army vs Navy and Harvard vs Yale). The game is often referred to as “the greatest rivalry game in all of sports” by fans and players alike.