Ole Miss defends the belt, 17–13, at a neutral site over Arkansas.
AP poll, week 11: Arkansas No. 6 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 59 days into reign #125, which began with a win over LSU, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 9 more times before Alabama took it on January 1, 1964, 424 days after the reign began.
For Arkansas this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 4th of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Ole Miss led the belt series 3–0; all-time Ole Miss leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
On January 1, 1963, Ole Miss defeated Arkansas 17-13 in a postseason matchup played at a neutral site. Ole Miss was the belt holder going into the game and successfully defended the 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 37338) · This game in the downloadable dataset