Ole Miss defends the belt, 35–9, at home over Mississippi State.
AP poll, week 11: Mississippi State unranked at Ole Miss No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 378 days into reign #123, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 11 defenses already behind it; this was its 12th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 7 more times before LSU took it on November 4, 1961, 721 days after the reign began.
For Mississippi State this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 3rd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Ole Miss led the belt series 1–0–1; all-time Ole Miss leads 4–0–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss defended the belt at home against Mississippi State on November 26, 1960, winning 35-9 to retain their lineal championship.
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 36094) · This game in the downloadable dataset