Ole Miss defends the belt, 10–7, on the road at Arkansas.
AP poll, week 7: Ole Miss No. 2 at Arkansas No. 12 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 343 days into reign #123, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 11 more times before LSU took it on November 4, 1961, 721 days after the reign began.
For Arkansas this was its 2nd 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 traveled to Arkansas on October 22, 1960, as the belt's defending champion. Arkansas won the game 10-7, but Ole Miss retained the belt 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 35815) · This game in the downloadable dataset