Ole Miss defends the belt, 33–0, at home over Florida State.
AP poll, week 4: Florida State unranked at Ole Miss No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Texas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 693 days into reign #123, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 15 defenses already behind it; this was its 16th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 3 more times before LSU took it on November 4, 1961, 721 days after the reign began.
For Florida State this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Florida State and Ole Miss have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
On October 7, 1961, Ole Miss defeated Florida State 33-0 at home in a regular season matchup. 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 36269) · This game in the downloadable dataset