The 1974 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the

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(Ole Miss) in the

1974 NCAA Division I football season The 1974 NCAA Division I football season finished with two national champions. The Associated Press (AP) writers' poll ranked the University of Oklahoma, which was on probation and barred by the NCAA from postseason play, No. 1 at season's end. ...

. The Rebels were led by first-year head coach Ken Cooper and played their home games at

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and Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in

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. The team competed as a member of the

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, finishing in last. The Rebels opened the season with an upset of Missouri, but the rest of the season went very poorly, as the team went winless in conference play and finished with a record of 3–8, the school's first losing season since 1949.

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Ole Miss Ole Miss Rebels football seasons

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