Auburn takes the belt, 6–0, at a neutral site over Michigan State.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Auburn took the belt here, ending Michigan State’s run of 56 days and 2 defenses (reign #81) and starting reign #82. It lasted 280 days and 2 defenses, until Tennessee took it on October 8, 1938.
For Auburn this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time Auburn and Michigan State have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Michigan State traveled to a neutral site to face Auburn on January 1, 1938, in a postseason matchup. Auburn won 6-0, taking the college football belt from Michigan State by virtue of the victory on the field.
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 22256) · This game in the downloadable dataset