Ole Miss defends the belt, 24–3, on the road at Tennessee.
AP poll, week 10: Ole Miss No. 3 at Tennessee unranked · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 364 days into reign #123, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 10 defenses already behind it; this was its 11th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 8 more times before LSU took it on November 4, 1961, 721 days after the reign began.
For Tennessee this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before.
It was the 5th of 9 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 2–2; all-time Ole Miss leads 5–4. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss visited Tennessee on November 12, 1960, in a regular season matchup. Tennessee won 24-3, 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 36002) · This game in the downloadable dataset