Ole Miss takes the belt, 15–7, on the road at LSU.
AP poll, week 8: Ole Miss No. 4 at LSU No. 9 · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss took the belt here, ending LSU’s run of 364 days and 10 defenses (reign #124) and starting reign #125. It lasted 424 days and 13 defenses, until Alabama took it on January 1, 1964.
For Ole Miss this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before — and it took it back here.
It was the 6th of 10 belt games between the two; going in, LSU led the belt series 3–1–1; all-time LSU leads 5–3–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss visited LSU on November 3, 1962, and defeated the home team 15-7 in week 8 of the regular season. With the victory, Ole Miss took the College Football Belt from LSU.
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 37114) · This game in the downloadable dataset