Georgia defends the belt, 40–0, on the road at Chattanooga.
AP poll, week 7: Georgia No. 5 at Chattanooga unranked · No. 1 that week: Boston College. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Georgia came in 14 days into reign #90, which began with a win over Alabama, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. It was the last defense: Auburn took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 21, 1942.
For Chattanooga this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 8 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Chattanooga and Georgia have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Georgia traveled to Chattanooga on November 14, 1942, as the belt's defending champion. Chattanooga defeated Georgia 40-0, but Georgia retained the belt.
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 25362) · This game in the downloadable dataset