Ole Miss defends the belt, 19–6, on the road at Tennessee.
AP poll, week 10: Ole Miss No. 2 at Tennessee unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 14 days into reign #125, which began with a win over LSU, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 11 more times before Alabama took it on January 1, 1964, 424 days after the reign began.
For Tennessee this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before.
It was the 6th of 9 belt games between the two; going in, Ole Miss led the belt series 3–2; all-time Ole Miss leads 5–4. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss visited Tennessee on November 17, 1962, in a regular season matchup where the visiting Rebels defeated the home Volunteers 19-6. 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 37241) · This game in the downloadable dataset