Ole Miss retains the belt after a 13–13 tie with LSU.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ole Miss came in 21 days into reign #134, which began with a win over Georgia, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. It was the last defense: Tennessee took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 18, 1967.
For LSU this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 8th of 10 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 3–3–1; all-time LSU leads 5–3–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Ole Miss visited LSU on November 4, 1967, in a regular season matchup that ended in a 13-13 tie. Under the belt's tie rule, the belt holder retains possession on a tie, so Ole Miss successfully defended the belt.
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 40293) · This game in the downloadable dataset