Georgia defends the belt, 75–0, at home over Florida.
AP poll, week 7: Florida unranked at Georgia No. 5 · No. 1 that week: Boston College. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Georgia came in 7 days into reign #90, which began with a win over Alabama, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Georgia went on to defend it 1 more time before Auburn took it on November 21, 1942, 21 days after the reign began.
For Florida this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 5 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Georgia leads 3–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Georgia, holding the belt, defeated Florida 75-0 on November 7, 1942 in Athens. With the victory, Georgia retained the lineal championship.
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 25299) · This game in the downloadable dataset