Ole Miss takes the belt, 14–7, at home over Tennessee.
AP poll, week 10: Tennessee No. 12 at Ole Miss No. 5 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss took the belt here, ending Tennessee’s run of 21 days and 2 defenses (reign #119) and starting reign #120. It lasted 350 days and 8 defenses, until LSU took it on November 1, 1958.
For Ole Miss this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the 3rd of 9 belt games between the two; going in, Tennessee led the belt series 2–0; all-time Ole Miss leads 5–4. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss defeated Tennessee 14-7 on November 16, 1957, in Oxford. With this victory, Ole Miss took possession of the College Football Belt from Tennessee.
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 34214) · This game in the downloadable dataset