Vaught–Hemingway Stadium

Vaught–Hemingway Stadium is an outdoor athletic stadium located in University, Mississippi, United States (although it has an Oxford address). The stadium serves as the home for the University of Mississippi Rebels college football team. The stadium is named after Johnny Vaught and Judge William Hemingway.

History

thumb|left|Football game at Hemingway Stadium, circa 1960

Building of the stadium started in 1915 as a federally sponsored project. A series of expansions and renovations have gradually expanded the stadium and modernized its amenities, allowing the Rebels to play all of their home games on campus. Prior to the early to mid-1990s, Ole Miss would play many of its big rivalry games, including the heated feuds with LSU, Mississippi State, Tennessee, and Arkansas at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in the state capital of Jackson, located approximately south of the Ole Miss campus; and to a lesser extent, the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis. The Ole Miss-MSU game, commonly referred to as the Egg Bowl, was held in Jackson every year from 1973 through 1990 before returning to a home-and-home series.

Namesake

When the stadium opened, it was named for Judge William Hemingway, a professor of law and chairman of the university's committee on athletics. October 12, 1982 saw the addition of legendary Ole Miss coach Johnny Vaught's name to the stadium. In the summer of 2012, Ole Miss announced that they had received a million-dollar gift that was to be used in the Forward Together capital campaign.

The most recent expansion, completed in 2016, completed the stadium's bowl shape and added 3,458 additional seats. This brought the total capacity to 64,038, making Vaught–Hemingway the largest stadium in the state.

thumb|right|The press box was added in a 1988 renovation.

Other notable upgrades include the installation of lights in 1990, the addition of a Jumbotron in 1997, and the replacement of the natural grass turf, which had become increasingly hard to maintain, with an AstroPlay artificial turf surface in 2003. In 2016, the stadium's field surface was changed back to natural grass for the third time.

Top 10 single game attendances

Rankings are from the AP Poll.

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| 1 || December 20, 2025 || 68,251 || #17 Tulane

|| W 41–10

| 2 || November 15, 2025 || 68,138 || Florida

|| W 34–24

| 3 || November 9, 2024 || 68,126 || #2 Georgia || W 28–10

| 4 || October 26, 2024 || 67,926 || Oklahoma || W 26–14

| 5 || November 29, 2024 || 67,896 || Mississippi State || W 26–14

| 6 || September 27, 2025 || 67,737 || #4 LSU || W 24–19

| 7 || September 28, 2024 || 67,616 || Kentucky || L 17–20

| 8 || September 21, 2024 || 67,505 || Georgia Southern || W 52–13

| 9 || November 1, 2025 || 67,491 || South Carolina || W 30–14

| 10 || November 8, 2025 || 67,326 || The Citadel || W 49–0

Manning Center indoor practice facility

In 2004, a indoor practice facility and locker room facility was opened. It is linked to the existing stadium via a secured tunnel.

Video display

thumb|The new display cost $6 million.

For the 2008 season, Vaught–Hemingway Stadium got a new HD Daktronics video board to replace the Sony Jumbotron that had been installed in the north endzone in 1997. The new board is the 8th largest scoreboard in NCAA college football (fourth in the Southeastern conference), measuring at by (4,032 square feet). Ole Miss' board cost $6 million, all of which was paid for by Telesouth Communications as part of a multimedia rights agreement with the university.

In 2016, Vaught–Hemingway upgraded to three new 13mm pixel HD video boards by Daktronics. The north board measures 48 ft (14 m) by 104.5 ft (31 m) (5,016 square feet), and the two south boards measure 30 ft (9 m) by 49 ft (15 m) (1,470 square feet).

Concerts

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! width=12% style="text-align:center;;|Date

! width=10% style="text-align:center;;|Artist

! width=10% style="text-align:center;;|Opening act(s)

! width=16% style="text-align:center;;|Tour / concert name

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|April 22-23, 2023

|Morgan Wallen (first night only)

|4/22: Bailey Zimmerman, ERNEST, HARDY<br>4/23: Nate Smith, ERNEST, HARDY

|One Night At a Time World Tour

|~60,000

|First concert at the stadium. Second night Wallen did not perform due to lost voice and medical notice to not sing.

|April 20, 2024

|Morgan Wallen

|Lauren Watkins,<br>Nate Smith, Bailey Zimmerman