Tennessee defends the belt, 14–6, at home over LSU.
AP poll, week 7: LSU unranked at Tennessee No. 4 · No. 1 that week: Notre Dame. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tennessee came in 21 days into reign #83, which began with a win over Auburn, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Tennessee went on to defend it 15 more times before USC took it on January 1, 1940, 450 days after the reign began.
For LSU this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Tennessee leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Tennessee defended the belt on October 29, 1938, defeating visiting LSU 14-6 in week 7 of the regular season.
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 22663) · This game in the downloadable dataset