Ole Miss defends the belt, 21–0, on the road at Tulane.
AP poll, week 6: Ole Miss No. 5 at Tulane unranked · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 350 days into reign #125, which began with a win over LSU, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 5 more times before Alabama took it on January 1, 1964, 424 days after the reign began.
For Tulane this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
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 Tulane on October 19, 1963, with the belt on the line. Tulane won 21-0, but since Ole Miss was the belt holder, the Rebels retained the championship by virtue of not losing it.
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 37605) · This game in the downloadable dataset