LSU defends the belt, 62–0, on the road at Tulane.
AP poll, week 11: LSU No. 1 at Tulane unranked · No. 1 that week: Pittsburgh. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU came in 21 days into reign #121, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. LSU went on to defend it 8 more times before Tennessee took it on November 7, 1959, 371 days after the reign began.
For Tulane this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time LSU leads 2–0.
About this game
LSU traveled to face Tulane on November 22, 1958, in a regular season matchup. Tulane won the game 62-0. As the belt's defender, LSU retained the championship 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 34857) · This game in the downloadable dataset