Ole Miss defends the belt, 16–0, at home over Arkansas.
AP poll, week 2: Arkansas unranked at Ole Miss No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 679 days into reign #123, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 13 defenses already behind it; this was its 14th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 5 more times before LSU took it on November 4, 1961, 721 days after the reign began.
For Arkansas this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 3rd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Ole Miss led the belt series 2–0; all-time Ole Miss leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss defeated Arkansas 16-0 on September 23, 1961, in Oxford. The defending belt holder kept 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 36160) · This game in the downloadable dataset