Sport Football | Meetings total 30 | |
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First meeting October 13, 1979
Tulane 20–19 Latest meeting November 6, 2010
Southern Miss 46, Tulane 30 All-time series Southern Miss leads 23–7 Largest victory Southern Miss 59, Tulane 6
(November 17, 2001) | ||
The Battle for the Bell is an American college football rivalry game between the University of Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles and Tulane University Green Wave football teams. The two schools are located only about 110 miles from each other (Southern Miss in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and Tulane in New Orleans, Louisiana) via Interstate 10 and Interstate 59, making for a heated game.
Beginning in 1979, The game was played annually until the reconfiguration of Conference USA in 2006 and is now played two out of four years as a cross-divisional conference match-up. The most recent game, a 46–30 victory by the Golden Eagles, was played in New Orleans in 2010. Southern Miss holds a 23–7 lead in the series.
The series' status after 2013 is unknown due to Tulane's move to the American Athletic Conference on July 1, 2014.