The 1996 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1996 NCAA Division I-A football season. They participated as members of the Southeastern Conference in the West Division. Coached by Tommy Tuberville, the Rebels played their home games at Vaught–Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi.

The 1996 Rebels served the second of a two-year postseason bowl ban, part of the sanctions handed down by the NCAA in November 1994. Ole Miss was allowed to appear on television after the NCAA banned the Rebels from the tube in 1995.

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Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Source
August 31	7:00 p.m.	Idaho State*	Vaught–Hemingway Stadium Oxford, MS		W 38–14	28,140	[1]
September 7	7:00 p.m.	VMI*	Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium Jackson, MS		W 31–7	28,196	[2]
September 14	11:30 a.m.	No. 15 Auburn	Vaught–Hemingway Stadium Oxford, MS (rivalry)	ESPN2	L 28–45	40,458	[3]
September 21	6:00 p.m.	at Vanderbilt	Vanderbilt Stadium Nashville, TN (rivalry)		W 20–9	40,820	[4]
October 3	6:30 p.m.	vs. No. 8 Tennessee	Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium Memphis, TN (rivalry)	ESPN	L 3–41	62,640	[5]
October 19	5:00 p.m.	at No. 7 Alabama	Bryant–Denny Stadium Tuscaloosa, AL (rivalry)	ESPN2	L 0–37	70,123	[6]
October 26	6:00 p.m.	Arkansas State*	Vaught–Hemingway Stadium Oxford, MS		W 38–21	28,176	[7]
November 9	1:00 p.m.	at Arkansas	Razorback Stadium Fayetteville, AR (rivalry)		L 7–13	42,356	[8]
November 16	2:00 p.m.	No. 17 LSU	Vaught–Hemingway Stadium Oxford, MS (rivalry)		L 7–39	44,436	[9]
November 23	11:30 a.m.	at Georgia	Sanford Stadium Athens, GA	JPS	W 31–27	76,511	[10]
November 30	11:30 a.m.	Mississippi State	Vaught–Hemingway Stadium Oxford, MS (Egg Bowl)	ESPN2	L 0–17	23,678	[11]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Central time

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