LSU takes the belt, 14–0, at home over Ole Miss.
AP poll, week 8: Ole Miss No. 9 at LSU No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Rice. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU took the belt here, ending Ole Miss’ run of 350 days and 8 defenses (reign #120) and starting reign #121. It lasted 371 days and 11 defenses, until Tennessee took it on November 7, 1959.
For LSU this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the first of 10 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time LSU leads 5–3–2. Every meeting →
About this game
LSU defeated Ole Miss 14-0 on November 1, 1958 in the eighth week of the regular season. With this victory on the field, LSU took 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 34689) · This game in the downloadable dataset