Alabama defends the belt, 24–3, on the road at LSU.
AP poll, week 10: Alabama No. 2 at LSU unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Alabama came in 28 days into reign #163, which began with a win over USC, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Alabama went on to defend it 5 more times before USC took it on September 23, 1978, 350 days after the reign began.
For LSU this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
It was the 2nd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Alabama led the belt series 1–0; all-time Alabama leads 5–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Alabama visited LSU on November 5, 1977, in a regular season week 10 matchup. LSU won the game 24-3, but Alabama retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 47768) · This game in the downloadable dataset