Georgia takes the belt, 21–10, at home over Alabama.
AP poll, week 7: Alabama No. 7 at Georgia No. 5 · No. 1 that week: Boston College. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Georgia took the belt here, ending Alabama’s run of 303 days and 5 defenses (reign #89) and starting reign #90. It lasted 21 days and 2 defenses, until Auburn took it on November 21, 1942.
For Georgia this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Georgia defeated Alabama 21-10 on October 31, 1942 in Athens. With this victory, Georgia took possession of the College Football Belt from Alabama.
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 25238) · This game in the downloadable dataset