Tennessee defends the belt, 27–7, at home over Ole Miss.
AP poll, week 10: Ole Miss unranked at Tennessee No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tennessee came in 357 days into reign #114, which began with a win over Vanderbilt, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Tennessee went on to defend it 2 more times before Baylor took it on January 1, 1957, 402 days after the reign began.
For Ole Miss this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 9 belt games between the two; going in, Tennessee led the belt series 1–0; all-time Ole Miss leads 5–4. Every meeting →
About this game
Tennessee defended the belt at home against Ole Miss on November 17, 1956, winning 27-7 to retain the championship.
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 33645) · This game in the downloadable dataset