Alabama defends the belt, 8–0, at home over Tennessee.
AP poll, week 6: Tennessee No. 11 at Alabama No. 9 · No. 1 that week: Georgia. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Alabama came in 289 days into reign #89, which began with a win over Texas A&M, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Alabama went on to defend it 1 more time before Georgia took it on October 31, 1942, 303 days after the reign began.
For Tennessee this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 3rd of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Tennessee led the belt series 2–0; all-time Alabama leads 4–3. Every meeting →
About this game
Alabama defeated Tennessee 8-0 on October 17, 1942, in Knoxville. The defending belt holder Alabama kept 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 25104) · This game in the downloadable dataset