Ole Miss defends the belt, 37–3, on the road at LSU.
AP poll, week 8: Ole Miss No. 3 at LSU unranked · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 364 days into reign #125, which began with a win over LSU, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 3 more times before Alabama took it on January 1, 1964, 424 days after the reign began.
For LSU this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 7th of 10 belt games between the two; going in, LSU led the belt series 3–2–1; all-time LSU leads 5–3–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss visited LSU on November 2, 1963, in a regular season matchup where the visiting Rebels defeated the home Tigers 37-3 while defending the college football belt. With the victory, Ole Miss retained 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 37731) · This game in the downloadable dataset