Georgia Tech defends the belt, 17–15, at home over Navy.
AP poll, week 8: Navy No. 2 at Georgia Tech unranked · No. 1 that week: Army. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Georgia Tech came in 7 days into reign #92, which began with a win over Auburn, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Georgia Tech went on to defend it 1 more time before Duke took it on November 4, 1944, 21 days after the reign began.
For Navy this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
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 Tech defended the College Football Belt at home against Navy on October 21, 1944, winning 17-15 to retain the 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 26142) · This game in the downloadable dataset