LSU takes the belt, 10–7, at home over Ole Miss.
AP poll, week 8: Ole Miss No. 7 at LSU No. 4 · No. 1 that week: Texas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU took the belt here, ending Ole Miss’ run of 721 days and 19 defenses (reign #123) and starting reign #124. It lasted 364 days and 10 defenses, until Ole Miss took it on November 3, 1962.
For LSU this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the 5th of 10 belt games between the two; going in, LSU led the belt series 2–1–1; all-time LSU leads 5–3–2. Every meeting →
About this game
LSU defeated Ole Miss 10-7 on November 4, 1961 in Oxford. With the victory, LSU took the College Football Belt from Ole Miss.
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 36495) · This game in the downloadable dataset