Ole Miss
Vaught-Hemingway Stadium · Oxford, MS
Oxford is the Grove, then the Walk of Champions under the arch, the Grove Show and FanFest, and Vaught-Hemingway. Don’t treat a start time as final until you’ve checked that week’s Ole Miss Gameday page.
Must see / do
Around campus
- The Grove is the oak shade in the middle of campus. Athletics calls it the Holy Grail. Semi-formal dress is fan custom, not a posted dress code. The Grove Bowl is the spring scrimmage. Leave it off a fall list.
- The Walk of Champions goes under the arch, on the east side of the Grove by the Student Union, toward Vaught about 2 hours before kick. Use that week’s Ole Miss Gameday page, or a fan primer, not a forever minute. The Pride of the South Grove Show is often about 1:15 before kick when it’s on the schedule. Stay in the Grove after the Walk. FanFest, east of Vaught, puts people in place hours early, about 3 hours before kick on the sample primers.
- Inside, it’s Lock the Vaught and Hotty Toddy before kick. Be in your seat.
Before the game
- The Square is the courthouse scene before and after the game, a short hop from campus. It’s a stroll, not a restaurant list.
- The Ole Miss Gameday site still needs a real browser before the map will load. Confirm it the week of the game.
On the lot
- The Grove is the footprint, and the Eastern Grove is the DIY side. Friday setup windows move by season. Spots go early.
- What’s published is the Friday land grab and the vendor lanes, and that’s in the overview. Grill, alcohol, and tent-size rules aren’t on those pages. Don’t invent them.
Overview
- Free personal tent setups are still allowed in the Grove. The Friday public land grab moved to 6:00 p.m. The Grove closes at 5:30 p.m. for prep.
- Friday lanes: student orgs and university departments from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. Registered vendors from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. for customer tents. Ops tents from 5:00 to 7:00 a.m. Friday.
- The Eastern Grove is reserved for DIY personal setups. Vendor fees were announced for 2025 at $150 and $100 a tent. Confirm this season’s price.
- Athletics says the traditional Grove experience is otherwise unchanged. DIY is free, or you pay a vendor.
- When the season hub is live, Ole Miss Gameday is the fan gateway. Don’t guess grill, alcohol, or tent-size rules that aren’t on the official pages.
- Treat the rest as a scout read until the full hub policy is confirmed in a browser each August.
The written rules and what an officer calls that Saturday aren’t always the same. Confirm yours the week of the game.
Map
No football map image is embedded here — the remote file is missing, blocked, or not a parking-map PDF. Use the official page: Open map / gameday info . Confirm week-of; maps move.