LSU defends the belt, 25–7, at a neutral site over Colorado.
AP poll, week 11: Colorado No. 6 at LSU No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU came in 58 days into reign #124, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. LSU went on to defend it 6 more times before Ole Miss took it on November 3, 1962, 364 days after the reign began.
For Colorado this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Colorado and LSU have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
LSU, defending the belt, defeated Colorado 25-7 on January 1, 1962, in a neutral-site matchup to retain the championship.
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 36706) · This game in the downloadable dataset