Rice takes the belt, 17–15, at home over LSU.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Rice took the belt here, ending LSU’s run of 266 days and 1 defense (reign #129) and starting reign #130. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until Tennessee took it on October 1, 1966.
For Rice this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, LSU led the belt series 1–0–1; all-time it is 1–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Rice defeated LSU 17-15 on September 24, 1966, in the third week of the regular season. With this victory on the field, Rice 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 39342) · This game in the downloadable dataset