LSU defends the belt, 14–6, at home over Mississippi State.
AP poll, week 10: Mississippi State unranked at LSU No. 4 · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU came in 14 days into reign #124, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. LSU went on to defend it 8 more times before Ole Miss took it on November 3, 1962, 364 days after the reign began.
For Mississippi State this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, LSU led the belt series 1–0; all-time LSU leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
On November 18, 1961, LSU defeated Mississippi State 14-6 to retain the college football belt in a regular season matchup. As the belt's defending holder, LSU's victory kept the lineal championship in Baton Rouge.
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 36612) · This game in the downloadable dataset