Ole Miss defends the belt, 21–0, on the road at Trinity (Texas).
AP poll, week 4: Ole Miss No. 7 at Trinity (Texas) unranked · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 322 days into reign #120, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 3 more times before LSU took it on November 1, 1958, 350 days after the reign began.
For Trinity (Texas) this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t; this remains its only belt game.
This is the only time Ole Miss and Trinity (Texas) have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
On October 4, 1958, Ole Miss traveled to face Trinity (Texas) in a week 4 regular season matchup. Trinity won 21-0. 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 34457) · This game in the downloadable dataset