Ole Miss defends the belt, 24–0, at home over Hardin Simmons.
AP poll, week 6: Hardin Simmons 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 336 days into reign #120, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 1 more time before LSU took it on November 1, 1958, 350 days after the reign began.
For Hardin Simmons 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 Hardin Simmons and Ole Miss have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
On October 18, 1958, Ole Miss defended the College Football Belt at home against Hardin Simmons, winning 24-0. The shutout victory allowed Ole Miss to retain the belt.
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 34567) · This game in the downloadable dataset