Ole Miss takes the belt, 29–20, at home over Georgia.
AP poll, week 6: Georgia No. 8 at Ole Miss unranked · No. 1 that week: Georgia. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss took the belt here, ending Georgia’s run of 322 days and 4 defenses (reign #133) and starting reign #134. It lasted 35 days and 3 defenses, until Tennessee took it on November 18, 1967.
For Ole Miss this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Ole Miss leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
On October 14, 1967, Ole Miss defeated Georgia 29-20 at home in a regular season matchup. With this victory, Ole Miss took the college football belt from Georgia.
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 40120) · This game in the downloadable dataset