Ole Miss retains the belt after a 7–7 tie with Mississippi State.
AP poll, week 11: Mississippi State No. 13 at Ole Miss No. 7 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 14 days into reign #120, which began with a win over Tennessee, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 7 more times before LSU took it on November 1, 1958, 350 days after the reign began.
For Mississippi State this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the first of 6 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Ole Miss leads 4–0–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss hosted Mississippi State on November 30, 1957, in week 12 of the regular season, finishing in a 7-7 tie. Under the belt's tie rule, the home team Ole Miss retained the belt with the draw.
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 34308) · This game in the downloadable dataset