Tennessee takes the belt, 20–7, at home over Ole Miss.
AP poll, week 11: Ole Miss unranked at Tennessee No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Tennessee. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tennessee took the belt here, ending Ole Miss’ run of 35 days and 3 defenses (reign #134) and starting reign #135. It lasted 44 days and 2 defenses, until Oklahoma took it on January 1, 1968.
For Tennessee this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 5 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 8th of 9 belt games between the two; going in, Ole Miss led the belt series 5–2; all-time Ole Miss leads 5–4. Every meeting →
About this game
Tennessee defeated Ole Miss 20-7 on November 18, 1967, in Knoxville. With this victory, Tennessee took possession of the College Football Belt from Ole Miss.
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 40436) · This game in the downloadable dataset