LSU takes the belt, 14–7, at a neutral site over Arkansas.
AP poll, week 12: Arkansas No. 2 at LSU unranked · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU took the belt here, ending Arkansas’ run of 77 days and 5 defenses (reign #128) and starting reign #129. It lasted 266 days and 1 defense, until Rice took it on September 24, 1966.
For LSU this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before — and it took it back here.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Arkansas, holding the belt, traveled to a neutral site to face LSU on January 1, 1966, in a postseason matchup. LSU won 14-7, taking the belt from Arkansas on the field.
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 39236) · This game in the downloadable dataset