Southern Miss defends the belt, 7–0, at home over SE Louisiana.
AP poll, week 5: SE Louisiana unranked at Southern Miss No. 19 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Southern Miss came in 29 days into reign #106, which began with a win over Alabama, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. It was the last defense: Memphis took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 31, 1953.
For SE Louisiana this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t; this remains its only belt game.
This is the only time SE Louisiana and Southern Miss have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Southern Miss defended the belt on October 17, 1953, defeating visiting SE Louisiana 7-0 in a regular season matchup. The home victory allowed Southern Miss to retain the lineal championship.
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 63873) · This game in the downloadable dataset