Ole Miss defends the belt, 14–12, on the road at Arkansas.
AP poll, week 7: Ole Miss No. 6 at Arkansas unranked · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 343 days into reign #120, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. It was the last defense: LSU took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 1, 1958.
For Arkansas this was its first 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 visited Arkansas on October 25, 1958, in a regular season matchup. Arkansas won 14-12, but Ole Miss retained the belt as the defending champion, having beaten the home team.
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 34633) · This game in the downloadable dataset