Ole Miss defends the belt, 41–0, at home over Tulane.
AP poll, week 6: Tulane unranked at Ole Miss No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Texas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 707 days into reign #123, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 17 defenses already behind it; this was its 18th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 1 more time before LSU took it on November 4, 1961, 721 days after the reign began.
For Tulane this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
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, defending the belt at home, defeated Tulane 41-0 on October 21, 1961. The victory allowed Ole Miss to retain the belt.
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 36385) · This game in the downloadable dataset