Ole Miss defends the belt, 31–20, on the road at Memphis.
AP poll, week 4: Ole Miss No. 2 at Memphis unranked · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 322 days into reign #123, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 14 more times before LSU took it on November 4, 1961, 721 days after the reign began.
For Memphis this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Ole Miss led the belt series 1–0; all-time Ole Miss leads 2–0–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss traveled to Memphis on October 1, 1960, as the defending belt holder. The Rebels won 31-20 to retain 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 35647) · This game in the downloadable dataset