I wanted to make a gag about school + football = star players not going to class and getting paid under the table, right? Well, in my brief research, I pulled this little beaut from the Ole Miss wiki page. Not really sure why I’m surprised.

With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, classes were interrupted when almost the entire student body (135 out of 139 students) from the University of Mississippi enlisted in the Confederate army.[13] Their company, Company A, 11th Mississippi Infantry, was nicknamed the University Greys. It suffered a 100% casualty rate during the Civil War.