Ole Miss defends the belt, 19–8, on the road at Tulane.
AP poll, week 5: Ole Miss No. 8 at Tulane unranked · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 329 days into reign #120, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 2 more times before LSU took it on November 1, 1958, 350 days after the reign began.
For Tulane this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
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 visited Tulane on October 11, 1958, in a week 5 regular season matchup. Tulane won 19-8, but Ole Miss was the belt holder and defeated Tulane to retain the lineal championship.
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 34515) · This game in the downloadable dataset