LSU defends the belt, 7–6, on the road at Mississippi State.
AP poll, week 10: LSU No. 1 at Mississippi State No. 18 · No. 1 that week: California. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU came in 14 days into reign #121, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. LSU went on to defend it 9 more times before Tennessee took it on November 7, 1959, 371 days after the reign began.
For Mississippi State this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time LSU leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
LSU traveled to Mississippi State on November 15, 1958, for a week 10 regular season matchup. LSU won 7-6, retaining the College Football Belt.
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 34800) · This game in the downloadable dataset