Ole Miss defends the belt, 21–0, at a neutral site over LSU.
AP poll, week 12: LSU No. 3 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 came in 48 days into reign #123, which began with a win over Tennessee, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 17 more times before LSU took it on November 4, 1961, 721 days after the reign began.
For LSU this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 3rd of 10 belt games between the two; going in, LSU led the belt series 2–0; all-time LSU leads 5–3–2. Every meeting →
About this game
On January 1, 1960, Ole Miss defeated LSU 21-0 in a neutral-site postseason matchup. Ole Miss was the belt holder entering the game and successfully defended it with the victory.
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 35511) · This game in the downloadable dataset