Alabama defends the belt, 21–6, at home over Mississippi State.
AP poll, week 4: Mississippi State unranked at Alabama No. 8 · No. 1 that week: Georgia. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Alabama came in 275 days into reign #89, which began with a win over Texas A&M, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Alabama went on to defend it 3 more times before Georgia took it on October 31, 1942, 303 days after the reign began.
For Mississippi State this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 4 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Alabama leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Alabama defeated Mississippi State 21-6 on October 3, 1942, in the fourth week of the regular season. As the defending belt holder, Alabama successfully retained the championship 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 24963) · This game in the downloadable dataset