Mississippi State takes the belt, 46–13, at home over Arkansas State.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Mississippi State took the belt here, ending Arkansas State’s run of 329 days and 4 defenses (reign #108) and starting reign #109. It lasted 13 days and 1 defense, until Miami took it on October 15, 1954.
For Mississippi State this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time Arkansas State and Mississippi State have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Mississippi State defeated Arkansas State 46-13 on October 2, 1954, in the third week of the regular season. With this victory on the field, Mississippi State took the College Football Belt from Arkansas State.
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 32115) · This game in the downloadable dataset