Ole Miss takes the belt, 37–7, at home over Tennessee.
AP poll, week 10: Tennessee No. 20 at Ole Miss No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss took the belt here, ending Tennessee’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #122) and starting reign #123. It lasted 721 days and 19 defenses, until LSU took it on November 4, 1961.
For Ole Miss this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the 4th of 9 belt games between the two; going in, Tennessee led the belt series 2–1; all-time Ole Miss leads 5–4. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss defeated Tennessee 37-7 on November 14, 1959, in Oxford. With this victory, Ole Miss took the College Football Belt from Tennessee.
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 35398) · This game in the downloadable dataset