Ole Miss retains the belt after a 10–10 tie with Mississippi State.
AP poll, week 12: Mississippi State unranked at Ole Miss No. 7 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 392 days into reign #125, which began with a win over LSU, with 12 defenses already behind it; this was its 13th defense. It was the last defense: Alabama took the belt in the very next belt game, on January 1, 1964.
For Mississippi State this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 5th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Ole Miss led the belt series 3–0–1; all-time Ole Miss leads 4–0–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss hosted Mississippi State on November 30, 1963, in a regular season matchup that ended in a 10-10 tie. Under the site's tie rule, Ole Miss retained the belt as the defending holder.
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 37925) · This game in the downloadable dataset