Ole Miss defends the belt, 20–0, at home over Tennessee.
AP poll, week 10: Tennessee 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 378 days into reign #125, which began with a win over LSU, with 11 defenses already behind it; this was its 12th defense. Ole Miss went on to defend it 1 more time before Alabama took it on January 1, 1964, 424 days after the reign began.
For Tennessee this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before.
It was the 7th of 9 belt games between the two; going in, Ole Miss led the belt series 4–2; all-time Ole Miss leads 5–4. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss defeated Tennessee 20-0 on November 16, 1963, in Oxford. As the belt's defending champion, Ole Miss retained 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 37853) · This game in the downloadable dataset