Ole Miss defends the belt, 13–6, at home over Mississippi State.
AP poll, week 11: Mississippi State unranked at Ole Miss No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 28 days into reign #125, which began with a win over LSU, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 10 more times before Alabama took it on January 1, 1964, 424 days after the reign began.
For Mississippi State this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 4th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Ole Miss led the belt series 2–0–1; all-time Ole Miss leads 4–0–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss defeated Mississippi State 13-6 on December 1, 1962, in week 12 of the regular season. 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 37321) · This game in the downloadable dataset