LSU defends the belt, 10–0, at home over TCU.
AP poll, week 3: TCU unranked at LSU No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU came in 329 days into reign #121, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. LSU went on to defend it 5 more times before Tennessee took it on November 7, 1959, 371 days after the reign began.
For TCU this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time LSU and TCU have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
LSU defeated TCU 10-0 on September 26, 1959, in week 3 of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, 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 34991) · This game in the downloadable dataset