LSU retains the belt after a 6–6 tie with Rice.
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU came in 329 days into reign #124, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. LSU went on to defend it 4 more times before Ole Miss took it on November 3, 1962, 364 days after the reign began.
For Rice this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, LSU led the belt series 1–0; all-time it is 1–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
LSU visited Rice on September 29, 1962, in a week 3 regular season matchup that ended in a 6-6 tie. Under the site's tie rule, the belt holder retains possession in the event of a draw, so LSU successfully defended the belt.
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 36828) · This game in the downloadable dataset