Auburn takes the belt, 27–13, at home over Georgia.
AP poll, week 7: Georgia No. 5 at Auburn No. 16 · No. 1 that week: Boston College. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Auburn took the belt here, ending Georgia’s run of 21 days and 2 defenses (reign #90) and starting reign #91. It lasted 693 days and 3 defenses, until Georgia Tech took it on October 14, 1944.
For Auburn this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the first of 4 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Auburn leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Auburn defeated Georgia 27-13 on November 21, 1942, in the eleventh week of the regular season. With this victory, Auburn took possession of the College Football Belt from Georgia.
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 25415) · This game in the downloadable dataset