LSU defends the belt, 9–0, on the road at Florida.
AP poll, week 7: LSU No. 1 at Florida unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU came in 357 days into reign #121, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. LSU went on to defend it 1 more time before Tennessee took it on November 7, 1959, 371 days after the reign began.
For Florida this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 5 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time LSU leads 3–2. Every meeting →
About this game
LSU visited Florida on October 24, 1959, in a week 7 regular season matchup. Florida won 9-0. As the belt's defending champion, LSU retained the belt despite the loss.
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 35215) · This game in the downloadable dataset