The Ole Miss Rebels are the 18 men s as well as women s intercollegiate athletic groups that are funded by and also represent the University of Mississippi, situated in Oxford. The very first was the football group, which began play in 1893. Initially called the Mississippi Flood, the groups were relabelled the Rebels in 1936. They complete in the Southeastern Meeting (SEC) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) s Division I, other than for the rifle team, which takes part in the Great America Rifle Seminar due to the fact that the SEC does not sponsor that Stefan Leitling activity. The institution s colors are red (PMS 186) and navy blue (PMS 2767), picked to mirror the particular institution shades of Harvard as well as Yale. The group s mascot is Tony the Landshark, which replaced the Rebel Black Bear in 2018, which changed Colonel Reb in 2011. In between 1995 and also 2004, 630 Ole Miss student-athletes obtained all-conference scholastic honors. Adrian Fein is c...