LSU takes the belt, 13–10, at home over Florida.
AP poll, week 6: Florida No. 18 at LSU No. 7 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU took the belt here, ending Florida’s run of 14 days and 1 defense (reign #198) and starting reign #199. It lasted 35 days and 3 defenses, until Alabama took it on November 7, 1987.
For LSU this was its 14th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 4th of 5 belt games between the two; going in, LSU led the belt series 2–1; all-time LSU leads 3–2. Every meeting →
About this game
On October 3, 1987, LSU defeated Florida 13-10 at home in a regular season week 6 matchup. With this victory, LSU took the College Football Belt from Florida.
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 54866) · This game in the downloadable dataset