LSU defends the belt, 22–0, at home over Baylor.
AP poll, week 4: Baylor unranked at LSU No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU came in 336 days into reign #121, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. LSU went on to defend it 4 more times before Tennessee took it on November 7, 1959, 371 days after the reign began.
For Baylor this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time Baylor and LSU have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
LSU defeated visiting Baylor 22-0 on October 3, 1959, in week 4 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 35042) · This game in the downloadable dataset