Ole Miss defends the belt, 20–6, on the road at Houston.
AP poll, week 4: Ole Miss No. 10 at Houston unranked · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 336 days into reign #125, which began with a win over LSU, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 6 more times before Alabama took it on January 1, 1964, 424 days after the reign began.
For Houston this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 8 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 3rd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Ole Miss led the belt series 2–0; all-time Ole Miss leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss traveled to Houston on October 5, 1963, as the belt holder and defeated the Cougars 20-6 to retain the championship.
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 37489) · This game in the downloadable dataset