Ole Miss defends the belt, 26–13, on the road at Tulane.
AP poll, week 6: Ole Miss No. 2 at Tulane unranked · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 336 days into reign #123, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 12 more times before LSU took it on November 4, 1961, 721 days after the reign began.
For Tulane this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
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 visited Tulane on October 15, 1960, in a regular season matchup. Tulane won the game 26-13, 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 35757) · This game in the downloadable dataset