Georgia defends the belt, 30–0, at home over Mississippi State.
AP poll, week 3: Mississippi State unranked at Georgia No. 5 · No. 1 that week: Texas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Georgia came in 301 days into reign #133, which began with a win over Georgia Tech, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Georgia went on to defend it 2 more times before Ole Miss took it on October 14, 1967, 322 days after the reign began.
For Mississippi State this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Georgia leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Georgia defended the belt at home against Mississippi State on September 23, 1967, winning 30-0 to retain it.
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 39931) · This game in the downloadable dataset