Ole Miss defends the belt, 42–0, on the road at Houston.
AP poll, week 2: Ole Miss No. 1 at Houston unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 308 days into reign #123, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 16 more times before LSU took it on November 4, 1961, 721 days after the reign began.
For Houston this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 8 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
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
{ "note": "Ole Miss traveled to Houston on September 17, 1960, as the defending belt holder. The Cougars dominated the game, winning 42-0, but the belt remained with Ole Miss due to the site's rules requiring the belt holder to lose the belt only when defeated on the field." } ``` Wait, I need to correct this - I made an error. Let me reread the facts. ```json { "note": "Ole Miss visited Houston on September 17, 1960, as the defending belt holder and defeated the Cougars 42-0, retaining 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 35538) · This game in the downloadable dataset