Mississippi State at LSU

Saturday, November 17, 1956

Mississippi State beat LSU 32–⁠13. It was their 49th meeting; after it, LSU led the series 24–⁠20–⁠3 in the games on file.

AwayMississippi State4–⁠6 in 1956
32
HomeLSU3–⁠7 in 1956
13

FinalHigh 60°F, low 42°FAttendance 25,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Maroons Beat Louisiana State

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 18, 1956, page 1

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    Maroons Beat Louisiana State BATON ROUGE, La, Nov. Il (P).-Sophomore Billy Stacy pu on a dazzling show tonight, romp’ ing for three touchdowns and setting up two more as Mississippi State bounced. Louisiana State, 32–⁠13. The Maroons’ fleet 178-pound quarterback raced a put back As yards for one score. ran IL yards and 8 yards for two more touch downs, passed % yards for a fourth. and cleverly quarter backed a 42-yard drive for the other score. Stacy, the Southeastern Conference’s leading ground gamer carried 10 times for los yards and completed four of Is passes for II yards. The victory gave Mississippi State a “a Conference record and As overall mark. LSU now has a 0–⁠5 Conference mark and 1T for the season. Mississippi State 1850 6 ~ 8 6–⁠3c Mississippi state scoring: Touchdown Stacy 3 az. run; AS. run; g.. rum Sabbatini “a. rum: Hollingshead (22 pass-run from Stacy. Conversions Tribble Q. Louisiana state University scoring Iouchdowns--Taylor q, plungeJ; WOOD 100. pass-run from Reynolds). CONVEX siOn-Taylor

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

LSU 53% to win. Mississippi State won as Elo’s underdog.

Officially, LSU leads 75–⁠36–⁠3; as played, 75–⁠37–⁠3 in the 115 games on file; the official count covers all 117 meetings, counting the 68 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026LSU 31, Mississippi State 0
2023LSU 41, Mississippi State 14
2022LSU 31, Mississippi State 16
2021LSU 28, Mississippi State 25
2020Mississippi State 44, LSU 34
2019LSU 36, Mississippi State 13

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