LSU defends the belt, 50–18, at home over Duke.
AP poll, week 9: Duke unranked at LSU No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Pittsburgh. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU came in 7 days into reign #121, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. LSU went on to defend it 10 more times before Tennessee took it on November 7, 1959, 371 days after the reign began.
For Duke this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time Duke and LSU have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
LSU defeated Duke 50-18 on November 8, 1958, in regular season play. As the belt's defending champion, LSU retained the belt with the victory.
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 34747) · This game in the downloadable dataset