LSU defends the belt, 10–7, on the road at Georgia Tech.
AP poll, week 4: LSU No. 6 at Georgia Tech unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU came in 336 days into reign #124, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. LSU went on to defend it 3 more times before Ole Miss took it on November 3, 1962, 364 days after the reign began.
For Georgia Tech this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time Georgia Tech and LSU have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
LSU visited Georgia Tech on October 6, 1962, in a regular season matchup. Georgia Tech won the game 10-7, but LSU retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 36862) · This game in the downloadable dataset