Ole Miss defends the belt, 41–0, at home over Tampa.
AP poll, week 9: Tampa 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 371 days into reign #125, which began with a win over LSU, with 10 defenses already behind it; this was its 11th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 2 more times before Alabama took it on January 1, 1964, 424 days after the reign began.
For Tampa this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 2 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Ole Miss and Tampa have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Ole Miss defeated visiting Tampa 41-0 on November 9, 1963, in a regular season week 9 matchup. The defending belt holder kept the title with the shutout 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 37793) · This game in the downloadable dataset