Auburn defends the belt, 41–13, at home over Clemson.
AP poll, week 7: Clemson unranked at Auburn No. 16 · No. 1 that week: Boston College. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Auburn came in 7 days into reign #91, which began with a win over Georgia, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Auburn went on to defend it 2 more times before Georgia Tech took it on October 14, 1944, 693 days after the reign began.
For Clemson this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 4 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time it is 2–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Auburn hosted Clemson on November 28, 1942, in a regular season matchup. Auburn won 41-13, preserving their hold on the College Football 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 25477) · This game in the downloadable dataset