LSU defends the belt, 26–23, on the road at Georgia.
AP poll, week 7: LSU No. 6 at Georgia No. 18 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU came in 7 days into reign #199, which began with a win over Florida, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. LSU went on to defend it 2 more times before Alabama took it on November 7, 1987, 35 days after the reign began.
For Georgia this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
This is the only time Georgia and LSU have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
LSU visited Georgia on October 10, 1987, in a week 7 regular season matchup. Georgia won 26-23, but LSU 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 54920) · This game in the downloadable dataset