Alabama defends the belt, 54–0, at home over Louisiana.
AP poll, week 3: Louisiana unranked at Alabama No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Ohio State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Alabama came in 267 days into reign #89, which began with a win over Texas A&M, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Alabama went on to defend it 4 more times before Georgia took it on October 31, 1942, 303 days after the reign began.
For Louisiana this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 2 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Alabama and Louisiana have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Alabama defeated Louisiana 54-0 on September 25, 1942, in the third week of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, Alabama retained the belt 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 24885) · This game in the downloadable dataset