Ole Miss retains the belt after a 6–6 tie with LSU.
AP poll, week 8: Ole Miss No. 6 at LSU unranked · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 350 days into reign #123, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 10 more times before LSU took it on November 4, 1961, 721 days after the reign began.
For LSU this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 4th of 10 belt games between the two; going in, LSU led the belt series 2–1; all-time LSU leads 5–3–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss visited LSU on October 29, 1960, in a week 8 regular season matchup that ended in a 6-6 tie. Under the site's tie rule, the belt holder retains possession in the event of a draw, so Ole Miss successfully defended 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 35875) · This game in the downloadable dataset