Ole Miss defends the belt, 47–7, at home over Houston.
AP poll, week 5: Houston unranked at Ole Miss No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 700 days into reign #123, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 16 defenses already behind it; this was its 17th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 2 more times before LSU took it on November 4, 1961, 721 days after the reign began.
For Houston this was its 3rd 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 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Ole Miss led the belt series 1–0; all-time Ole Miss leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss hosted Houston on October 14, 1961, in a regular season matchup. The home team won decisively, 47-7, and retained the college football 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 36324) · This game in the downloadable dataset