Tennessee defends the belt, 47–0, at home over Ole Miss.
AP poll, week 7: Ole Miss unranked at Tennessee No. 4 · No. 1 that week: Notre Dame. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tennessee came in 56 days into reign #83, which began with a win over Auburn, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Tennessee went on to defend it 11 more times before USC took it on January 1, 1940, 450 days after the reign began.
For Ole Miss this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 9 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Ole Miss leads 5–4. Every meeting →
About this game
Tennessee hosted Ole Miss on December 3, 1938, in a regular season matchup, defeating the visitors 47-0. The defending belt holder Tennessee retained the championship with the victory.
Written by Claude, strictly from this site’s own record of the game — the score and what it meant for the belt. CFBD doesn’t have a box score for games this old, so nothing here is invented beyond what’s verifiably on file.
Sources Game record: College Football Data (id 22915) · This game in the downloadable dataset