Ole Miss defends the belt, 42–0, on the road at Mississippi State.
AP poll, week 12: Ole Miss No. 2 at Mississippi State unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 14 days into reign #123, which began with a win over Tennessee, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 18 more times before LSU took it on November 4, 1961, 721 days after the reign began.
For Mississippi State this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 0–0–1; all-time Ole Miss leads 4–0–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss traveled to Mississippi State on November 28, 1959, as the belt defender. Mississippi State won the game 42-0, but Ole Miss retained the belt as the defending champion, as the belt only changes hands when the challenger defeats the holder.
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 35492) · This game in the downloadable dataset