Alabama defends the belt, 23–6, on the road at Mississippi State.
AP poll, week 8: Alabama No. 2 at Mississippi State unranked · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Alabama came in 304 days into reign #126, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Alabama went on to defend it 3 more times before Texas took it on January 1, 1965, 366 days after the reign began.
For Mississippi State this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Alabama led the belt series 1–0; all-time Alabama leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Alabama, the defending belt holder, traveled to Mississippi State on October 31, 1964. Mississippi State won the game 23-6, but Alabama retained the belt as the previous champion.
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 38325) · This game in the downloadable dataset