Ole Miss defends the belt, 17–0, on the road at Memphis.
AP poll, week 2: Ole Miss No. 9 at Memphis unranked · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 308 days into reign #120, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 5 more times before LSU took it on November 1, 1958, 350 days after the reign began.
For Memphis this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Ole Miss leads 2–0–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss visited Memphis on September 20, 1958, in a week 2 regular season matchup. Memphis won 17-0. Ole Miss retained the belt with the victory.
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 34352) · This game in the downloadable dataset