LSU defends the belt, 62–0, at home over Tulane.
AP poll, week 11: Tulane unranked at LSU No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU came in 21 days into reign #124, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. LSU went on to defend it 7 more times before Ole Miss took it on November 3, 1962, 364 days after the reign began.
For Tulane this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, LSU led the belt series 1–0; all-time LSU leads 2–0.
About this game
LSU defeated Tulane 62-0 on November 25, 1961 in a regular season matchup. As the belt holder, LSU retained the championship 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 36660) · This game in the downloadable dataset