Ole Miss defends the belt, 45–0, at home over Chattanooga.
AP poll, week 9: Chattanooga unranked at Ole Miss No. 4 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 357 days into reign #123, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 9 more times before LSU took it on November 4, 1961, 721 days after the reign began.
For Chattanooga this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 8 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Ole Miss leads 2–0.
About this game
Ole Miss defeated visiting Chattanooga 45-0 on November 5, 1960 in week 9 of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, Ole Miss retained the championship 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 35939) · This game in the downloadable dataset