LSU defends the belt, 21–0, at home over Texas A&M.
AP poll, week 2: Texas A&M unranked at LSU No. 5 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU came in 322 days into reign #124, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. LSU went on to defend it 5 more times before Ole Miss took it on November 3, 1962, 364 days after the reign began.
For Texas A&M this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time LSU and Texas A&M have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
LSU defeated Texas A&M 21-0 on September 22, 1962 in Baton Rouge. The defending belt holder kept the belt with this victory in the second week of the regular season.
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 36750) · This game in the downloadable dataset