LSU defends the belt, 7–0, on the road at Kentucky.
AP poll, week 6: LSU No. 6 at Kentucky unranked · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU came in 350 days into reign #124, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. LSU went on to defend it 1 more time before Ole Miss took it on November 3, 1962, 364 days after the reign began.
For Kentucky this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, LSU led the belt series 1–0; all-time LSU leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
LSU visited Kentucky on October 20, 1962, in a regular season matchup. Kentucky won 7-0. As the defending belt holder, LSU retained the championship despite the loss.
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 36981) · This game in the downloadable dataset