Georgia defends the belt, 38–7, on the road at Ole Miss.
AP poll, week 5: Georgia No. 10 at Ole Miss unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Georgia came in 21 days into reign #146, which began with a win over Tulane, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Georgia went on to defend it 4 more times before Auburn took it on November 13, 1971, 56 days after the reign began.
For Ole Miss this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Ole Miss led the belt series 1–0; all-time Ole Miss leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Georgia traveled to Ole Miss on October 9, 1971, in a regular season matchup as the defending belt holder. Ole Miss won 38-7, but Georgia retained the belt as the defending 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 42787) · This game in the downloadable dataset