Ole Miss defends the belt, 39–7, at a neutral site over Texas.
AP poll, week 11: Texas unranked 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 46 days into reign #120, which began with a win over Tennessee, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 6 more times before LSU took it on November 1, 1958, 350 days after the reign began.
For Texas this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Ole Miss and Texas have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
On January 1, 1958, Ole Miss defeated Texas 39-7 in a neutral-site postseason matchup to retain the College Football Belt. The defending belt holder's victory kept the lineal championship in Oxford.
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 34323) · This game in the downloadable dataset