Ole Miss defends the belt, 26–0, on the road at Vanderbilt.
AP poll, week 5: Ole Miss No. 1 at Vanderbilt unranked · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 329 days into reign #123, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 13 more times before LSU took it on November 4, 1961, 721 days after the reign began.
For Vanderbilt this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
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
On October 8, 1960, Ole Miss traveled to Vanderbilt in a week 5 regular season matchup. Vanderbilt won the game 26-0, but Ole Miss retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 35697) · This game in the downloadable dataset