Ole Miss defends the belt, 52–7, at home over Chattanooga.
AP poll, week 9: Chattanooga unranked at Ole Miss No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 7 days into reign #125, which began with a win over LSU, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 12 more times before Alabama took it on January 1, 1964, 424 days after the reign began.
For Chattanooga this was its 7th 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 2 belt games between the two; going in, Ole Miss led the belt series 1–0; all-time Ole Miss leads 2–0.
About this game
On November 10, 1962, Ole Miss defeated Chattanooga 52-7 at home in a regular season matchup. Ole Miss was the belt holder going into the game and successfully defended 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 37180) · This game in the downloadable dataset