Ole Miss defends the belt, 21–6, at home over Kentucky.
AP poll, week 3: Kentucky unranked at Ole Miss No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 315 days into reign #123, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 15 more times before LSU took it on November 4, 1961, 721 days after the reign began.
For Kentucky this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Ole Miss led the belt series 1–0; all-time Ole Miss leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss defeated Kentucky 21-6 on September 24, 1960, in Oxford. As the defending belt holder, Ole Miss retained the championship 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 35590) · This game in the downloadable dataset