Tennessee takes the belt, 14–13, at home over LSU.
AP poll, week 9: LSU No. 3 at Tennessee No. 9 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tennessee took the belt here, ending LSU’s run of 371 days and 11 defenses (reign #121) and starting reign #122. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until Ole Miss took it on November 14, 1959.
For Tennessee this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Tennessee led the belt series 2–0; all-time Tennessee leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Tennessee defeated LSU 14-13 on November 7, 1959, in Knoxville. With this victory, Tennessee took the College Football Belt from LSU.
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 35359) · This game in the downloadable dataset