Alabama takes the belt, 22–10, on the road at LSU.
AP poll, week 11: Alabama No. 11 at LSU No. 10 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Alabama took the belt here, ending LSU’s run of 35 days and 3 defenses (reign #199) and starting reign #200. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until Notre Dame took it on November 14, 1987.
For Alabama this was its 17th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 7 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 3rd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Alabama led the belt series 2–0; all-time Alabama leads 5–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Alabama visited LSU on November 7, 1987, in a regular season week 11 matchup. LSU won the game 22-10, and with that victory on the field, Alabama took possession of the College Football Belt from LSU.
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 55103) · This game in the downloadable dataset