Alabama defends the belt, 17–9, at home over LSU.
AP poll, week 9: LSU No. 8 at Alabama No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Alabama came in 311 days into reign #126, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Alabama went on to defend it 2 more times before Texas took it on January 1, 1965, 366 days after the reign began.
For LSU this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the first of 6 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Alabama leads 5–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Alabama defeated LSU 17-9 at home on November 7, 1964 in a week 9 regular season matchup. As the belt's defending holder, Alabama 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 38386) · This game in the downloadable dataset