Here’s a look at the Ole Miss-Memphis series (through a series of one-liners):

* Each of the last three games in the series have been decided by seven or fewer points, Ole Miss winning by 3 last year, by 4 in 2005 and Memphis winning by 7 in 2004 in Oxford.

* Ole Miss leads the overall series, 44-10-2, but the Rebels are 6-4 against Memphis in the last 10 meetings (beginning in 1993).

* The average margin of victory in the series since 2003 is 6.0 points; it hasn’t been a series this closely contest since the mid-1970s, when the margin of victory in five games was 5.2.

* Tiger coach Tommy West began his college coaching career as an assistant under Steve Sloan at Ole Miss in 1979.

* There are 21 players on the Memphis roster from Mississippi, an increase of 18 from 2001 when West took over as Tiger coach.