1958 SEC football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
#1 LSU $	6	–	0	–	0	11	–	0	–	0
#4 Auburn	6	–	0	–	1	9	–	0	–	1
#11 Ole Miss	4	–	2	–	0	9	–	2	–	0
Vanderbilt	2	–	1	–	3	5	–	2	–	3
Tennessee	4	–	3	–	0	4	–	6	–	0
Alabama	3	–	4	–	1	5	–	4	–	1
Kentucky	3	–	4	–	1	5	–	4	–	1
#14 Florida	2	–	3	–	1	6	–	4	–	1
Georgia Tech	2	–	3	–	1	5	–	4	–	1
Georgia	2	–	4	–	0	4	–	6	–	0
Tulane	1	–	5	–	0	3	–	7	–	0
Mississippi State	1	–	6	–	0	3	–	6	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

	1	2	3	4	Total
• LSU	7	6	6	7	26
Rice	0	0	0	6	6

Date: September 20
Location: Rice Stadium
Houston, TX
Game attendance: 45,000

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Alabama–LSU

	1	2	3	4	Total
• #15 LSU	0	0	7	6	13
Alabama	0	3	0	0	3

Date: September 27
Location: Ladd Stadium
Mobile, AL
Game attendance: 34,000

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	1	2	3	4	Total
Hardin Simmons	0	6	0	0	6
• #13 LSU	13	7	0	0	20

Date: October 4
Location: Tiger Stadium
Baton Rouge, LA
Game attendance: 45,000

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	1	2	3	4	Total
• #11 LSU	6	7	8	20	41
Miami (FL)	0	0	0	0	0

Date: October 10
Location: Orange Bowl
Miami, FL
Game attendance: 40,614

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	1	2	3	4	Total
Kentucky	7	0	0	0	7
• #9 LSU	7	6	13	6	32

Date: October 18
Location: Tiger Stadium
Baton Rouge, LA
Game attendance: 65,000

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Florida–LSU

	1	2	3	4	Total
Florida	0	0	0	7	7
• #3 LSU	0	7	0	3	10

Date: October 25
Location: Tiger Stadium
Baton Rouge, LA
Game attendance: 62,000

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Magnolia Bowl

	1	2	3	4	Total
#6 Ole Miss	0	0	0	0	0
• #1 LSU	0	7	0	7	14

Date: November 1
Location: Tiger Stadium
Baton Rouge, LA
Game attendance: 68,000

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	1	2	3	4	Total
Duke	6	0	6	6	18
• #1 LSU	6	22	8	14	50

Date: November 8
Location: Tiger Stadium
Baton Rouge, LA
Game attendance: 63,000

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The 1958 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University (LSU) in American football during the 1958 college football season. After finishing the season with a 10–0 record the team was named national champion by the Associated Press (AP) and the Coaches Poll (UPI). This was LSU's first claimed national championship and first undefeated season since 1908. The Tigers were coached by Paul Dietzel in his fourth season and competed in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), in which the team earned its third SEC championship and sixth conference championship overall.

The Tigers were led by a backfield of Louisiana locals Billy Cannon, Warren Rabb, and Johnny Robinson, all of whom received first-team All-SEC honors after the season. The team is perhaps most remembered for coach Paul Dietzel's unique "three-platoon system", of which the "Chinese Bandits" were a part.

Prior to the season, LSU head coach Paul Dietzel experimented with different methods of keeping players rested. Substitution rules at the time allowed players to re-enter a game only twice per quarter. Dietzel implemented his "three-platoon system," which split the team into the "White Team," the "Go Team," and the "Chinese Bandits." Each platoon was a unit consisting of eleven players. The White Team was the starting unit. It consisted of the team's most talented players who excelled on both offense and defense. The Go Team was the second string unit that played primarily on offense. The Chinese Bandits were the team's second string defense, and was made up of mainly underclassmen. Dietzel's plan was to swap players out in a platoon-like fashion in order to keep them rested throughout the game, since most starters played on both offense and defense during this era. Instead of resting individual players, he replaced all eleven players on the field. This system was part of what Dietzel referred to as "efficient football;" to attempt get the most production out of every player on the team.

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