Arkansas defends the belt, 24–3, on the road at SMU.
AP poll, week 10: Arkansas No. 2 at SMU unranked · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Arkansas came in 28 days into reign #128, which began with a win over Texas, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Arkansas went on to defend it 1 more time before LSU took it on January 1, 1966, 77 days after the reign began.
For SMU this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 5 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Arkansas and SMU have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Arkansas visited SMU on November 13, 1965, in a regular season matchup where the Razorbacks, as belt holders, defeated the Mustangs 24-3 to retain the lineal championship.
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 39091) · This game in the downloadable dataset