{"id":132625,"date":"2023-09-21T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=132625"},"modified":"2023-09-21T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T17:00:09","slug":"record-student-crowds-open-2023-ole-miss-football-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/record-student-crowds-open-2023-ole-miss-football-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Student Crowds Open 2023 Ole Miss Football Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Rebel Students Set Attendance Records vs. Mercer, Georgia Tech<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>There&#8217;s no doubt the<strong> Ole Miss<\/strong> student body was ready for the start of the 2023 college football season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Rebel football team opened the season with 73-7 defeat of <strong>Mercer<\/strong>, and 9,262 students scanned in for the game, the largest scanned student crowd in program history. Just two weeks later, that record fell when 9,486 students attended Ole Miss&#8217; 48-23 win over <strong>Georgia Tech<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The record student crowds come as no surprise, as Ole Miss\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/olemisssports.com\/news\/2023\/8\/23\/football-student-season-tickets-sold-out.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">sold out<\/a>\u00a0of student season ticket packages before the start of the season, setting the program record for student tickets sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Excitement is at an all-time high around the Rebel program and the university. For the second consecutive year, Ole Miss welcomed in its largest freshman class in history, more than 5,000 students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The student attendance record at <strong>Vaught-Hemingway Stadium<\/strong> could be in jeopardy as early as next week.\u00a0<dfn><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/olemisssports.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/coaches\/lane-kiffin\/894\" target=\"_blank\">Lane Kiffin<\/a><\/dfn>&#8216;s Rebels will welcome SEC rival <strong>LSU<\/strong> for a 5 pm CT kickoff on Saturday, September 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ole Miss has already\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/olemisssports.com\/news\/2023\/8\/17\/football-single-game-tickets-vs-lsu-sold-out.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">sold out<\/a>\u00a0of single-game tickets stadium-wide. Fans&#8217; only option to acquire Ole Miss\/LSU is to purchase a two-, three- or four-game\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/olemisssports.com\/news\/2023\/9\/20\/football-limited-party-packs-remain-for-ole-miss-vs-lsu.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">party pack<\/a>. Visit OleMissTix.com for more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebel Students Set Attendance Records vs. Mercer, Georgia Tech \u00a0There&#8217;s no doubt the Ole Miss student body was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123462,"featured_media":132626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[653,700,8256,4033],"class_list":["post-132625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ole-miss","tag-ole-miss-football","tag-rebels","tag-students","tag-vaught-hemingway-stadium"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ole-miss-students.jpeg?fit=1884%2C1060&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}