LSU defends the belt, 23–0, at home over Florida.
AP poll, week 7: Florida 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 357 days into reign #124, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. It was the last defense: Ole Miss took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 3, 1962.
For Florida this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 5 belt games between the two; going in, LSU led the belt series 1–0; all-time LSU leads 3–2. Every meeting →
About this game
LSU defeated Florida 23-0 on October 27, 1962, in week 7 of the regular season. As the belt holder, LSU successfully defended its title with the shutout 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 37046) · This game in the downloadable dataset