Alabama defends the belt, 14–0, on the road at Kentucky.
AP poll, week 7: Alabama No. 7 at Kentucky unranked · No. 1 that week: Boston College. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Alabama came in 296 days into reign #89, which began with a win over Texas A&M, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. It was the last defense: Georgia took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 31, 1942.
For Kentucky this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Alabama and Kentucky have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Alabama visited Kentucky on October 24, 1942, in a week 7 regular season game. Kentucky won 14-0. Alabama retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 25167) · This game in the downloadable dataset