LSU defends the belt, 30–0, on the road at North Carolina.
AP poll, week 9: LSU No. 4 at North Carolina unranked · No. 1 that week: Texas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU came in 7 days into reign #124, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. LSU went on to defend it 9 more times before Ole Miss took it on November 3, 1962, 364 days after the reign began.
For North Carolina this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time LSU and North Carolina have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
LSU visited North Carolina on November 11, 1961, in a regular season matchup. North Carolina won 30-0. As the belt's defending champion, LSU retained the title 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 36551) · This game in the downloadable dataset