Hey. Did you know that Mississippi State baseball, even in bad years, is almost certainly still better than Ole Miss?

Sure, yeah, they can win a few series here and there. But generally, Miss. State comes out on top of these matchups more often than not. The Bulldogs tend to win against Ole Miss here.

We can look at the history of the overall series, in which the Bulldogs have won 263 games while the Rebels have won 209 (and then there’s 5 ties). We can look at how Mississippi State has won every series from 2016 and up through this season.

Or, we can talk about how the Bulldogs have won twice as many Governor’s Cups as Ole Miss. (There’s also a host of other fun numbers to look at, but let’s just focus in here for a second).

Mississippi State baseball: Governor’s Cup wins

The Mississippi State baseball team has managed to really control this midweek rivalry. Here are the wins that the MS State baseball team has in the Governor’s Cup from 2007 to 2023:

• 2007
• 2008
• 2011
• 2013
• 2014
• 2016
• 2017
• 2018
• 2019
• 2023

If you’ll count, that list totals 10 wins for the Mississippi State Bulldogs. All things considered, that’s pretty good for MSU baseball.

Ole Miss baseball: Governor’s Cup wins

Here are the wins that the Ole Miss baseball team has in the Governor’s Cup from 2007 to 2023:

• 2009
• 2010
• 2012
• 2015
• 2022

And that’s it.

As of this year, Ole Miss has quite literally a fraction of the wins that Mississippi State has in this rivalry match up.

That’s fun!

Sure, it’d be better for everyone if the Rebels never won this game (or any game), but hey, we’ll take what we can get. Which is two-thirds of the wins in the Governor’s Cup, apparently.

Yep, Mississippi State baseball has twice as many wins as Ole Miss here

As of 2023, Mississippi State has managed to win the Governor’s Cup twice as many times as Ole Miss has. The Bulldogs are evidently much better at winning this midweek rivalry match up than the Rebels tend to be.

Of the 15 meetings in this contest, Mississippi State has happened to win 10 of them and the Bulldogs are winning those games with an average margin of victory of 3.3 runs.

Interestingly enough though, when this game goes poorly for the Bulldogs, it certainly goes poorly. Ole Miss has its five wins in this series with those games being decided, on average, by 5 runs.

So… Let’s focus on the positives here. Look at all those wins.

Governor’s Cup Timeline of Wins

Winner	Score
2007: Mississippi State	14-9
2008: Mississippi State	6-5
2009: Ole Miss	8-1
2010: Ole Miss	5-3
2011: Mississippi State	6-1
2012: Ole Miss	6-3
2013: Mississippi State	5-1
2014: Mississippi State	8-3
2015: Ole Miss	11-1
2016: Mississippi State	2-0
2017: Mississippi State	4-2
2018: Mississippi State	7-6
2019: Mississippi State	8-1
2020: Season cancelled
2021: Game cancelled
2022: Ole Miss	5-2
2023: Mississippi State	2-1