Ole Miss defends the belt, 27–6, at home over Kentucky.
AP poll, week 3: Kentucky unranked at Ole Miss No. 6 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 315 days into reign #120, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 4 more times before LSU took it on November 1, 1958, 350 days after the reign began.
For Kentucky this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 4 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Ole Miss leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss hosted Kentucky on September 27, 1958, in the third week of the regular season. Ole Miss won 27-6 and retained the College Football Belt as the defending champion.
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 34401) · This game in the downloadable dataset