Ole Miss defends the belt, 27–7, at home over Vanderbilt.
AP poll, week 7: Vanderbilt unranked at Ole Miss No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 357 days into reign #125, which began with a win over LSU, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 4 more times before Alabama took it on January 1, 1964, 424 days after the reign began.
For Vanderbilt this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
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 defeated visiting Vanderbilt 27-7 on October 26, 1963 in a week 7 regular season matchup. The belt-holding Rebels successfully defended their claim 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 37670) · This game in the downloadable dataset