Notre Dame defends the belt, 12–0, at home over Georgia Tech.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Notre Dame came in 14 days into reign #55, which began with a win over Penn State, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Notre Dame went on to defend it 3 more times before Carnegie Mellon took it on November 27, 1926, 42 days after the reign began.
For Georgia Tech this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Notre Dame led the belt series 1–0; all-time Notre Dame leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Notre Dame defeated Georgia Tech 12-0 on October 30, 1926 in week 7 of the regular season. Notre Dame was the belt holder going into the game and successfully defended it 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 14905) · This game in the downloadable dataset