Ole Miss defends the belt, 31–7, on the road at Kentucky.
AP poll, week 3: Ole Miss No. 10 at Kentucky unranked · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 329 days into reign #125, which began with a win over LSU, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 7 more times before Alabama took it on January 1, 1964, 424 days after the reign began.
For Kentucky this was its 12th 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
Ole Miss visited Kentucky on September 28, 1963, in week 3 of the regular season. Kentucky won the game 31-7, but Ole Miss was the belt holder and retained it 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 37428) · This game in the downloadable dataset