LSU defends the belt, 17–3, at home over Miami.
AP poll, week 5: Miami unranked at LSU No. 4 · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU came in 343 days into reign #124, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. LSU went on to defend it 2 more times before Ole Miss took it on November 3, 1962, 364 days after the reign began.
For Miami this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice 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 Miami 17-3 on October 13, 1962 in a regular season matchup. As the belt's defending 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 36926) · This game in the downloadable dataset