LSU defends the belt, 42–13, on the road at Ole Miss.
AP poll, week 10: LSU No. 5 at Ole Miss unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU came in 28 days into reign #199, which began with a win over Florida, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. It was the last defense: Alabama took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 7, 1987.
For Ole Miss this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before.
It was the 9th of 10 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 3–3–2; all-time LSU leads 5–3–2. Every meeting →
About this game
LSU visited Ole Miss on October 31, 1987, in a regular season week 10 matchup, with the belt-holding Tigers defeating the Rebels 42-13. LSU retained the belt with the victory.
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 55073) · This game in the downloadable dataset