Tennessee defends the belt, 20–0, on the road at LSU.
AP poll, week 8: Tennessee No. 2 at LSU unranked · No. 1 that week: Texas A&M. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tennessee came in 392 days into reign #83, which began with a win over Auburn, with 13 defenses already behind it; this was its 14th defense. Tennessee went on to defend it 4 more times before USC took it on January 1, 1940, 450 days after the reign began.
For LSU 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, Tennessee led the belt series 1–0; all-time Tennessee leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Tennessee visited LSU on November 4, 1939, in a regular season matchup. LSU won 20-0. As the belt's defending champion, Tennessee retained the title despite the loss.
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 23353) · This game in the downloadable dataset