LSU defends the belt, 7–3, at home over Ole Miss.
AP poll, week 8: Ole Miss No. 5 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 364 days into reign #121, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with 10 defenses already behind it; this was its 11th defense. It was the last defense: Tennessee took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 7, 1959.
For Ole Miss this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 10 belt games between the two; going in, LSU led the belt series 1–0; all-time LSU leads 5–3–2. Every meeting →
About this game
LSU defended the belt at home against Ole Miss on October 31, 1959, winning 7-3 in week 8 of the regular season.
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 35282) · This game in the downloadable dataset