Ole Miss defends the belt, 47–0, at home over Vanderbilt.
AP poll, week 7: Vanderbilt 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 714 days into reign #123, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 18 defenses already behind it; this was its 19th defense. It was the last defense: LSU took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 4, 1961.
For Vanderbilt this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
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
On October 28, 1961, Ole Miss defeated visiting Vanderbilt 47-0 in a regular season matchup. As the belt's defending champion, Ole Miss retained the lineal title 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 36436) · This game in the downloadable dataset