Ole Miss retains the belt after a 0–0 tie with Memphis.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 322 days into reign #125, which began with a win over LSU, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 8 more times before Alabama took it on January 1, 1964, 424 days after the reign began.
For Memphis this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Ole Miss led the belt series 2–0; all-time Ole Miss leads 2–0–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss hosted Memphis on September 21, 1963, in a week 2 regular season matchup that ended in a 0-0 tie. Under the site's tie rule, the belt holder retains possession on a tie, so Ole Miss successfully defended the belt.
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 37369) · This game in the downloadable dataset