LSU defends the belt, 9–0, on the road at Kentucky.
AP poll, week 6: LSU No. 1 at Kentucky unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU came in 350 days into reign #121, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. LSU went on to defend it 2 more times before Tennessee took it on November 7, 1959, 371 days after the reign began.
For Kentucky this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time LSU leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
LSU visited Kentucky on October 17, 1959, in a regular season week 6 matchup. Kentucky won 9-0. LSU was the belt holder entering the game and retained it 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 35156) · This game in the downloadable dataset