Tennessee defends the belt, 29–17, at home over Ole Miss.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tennessee came in 21 days into reign #158, which began with a win over Clemson, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Tennessee went on to defend it 4 more times before UCLA took it on September 20, 1975, 329 days after the reign began.
For Ole Miss this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before.
It was the 9th of 9 belt games between the two; going in, Ole Miss led the belt series 5–3; all-time Ole Miss leads 5–4. Every meeting →
About this game
Tennessee defended the belt at home against Ole Miss on November 16, 1974, winning 29-17 to retain the 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 45441) · This game in the downloadable dataset