Duke takes the belt, 19–13, at home over Georgia Tech.
AP poll, week 8: Georgia Tech unranked at Duke No. 11 · No. 1 that week: Army. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Duke took the belt here, ending Georgia Tech’s run of 21 days and 2 defenses (reign #92) and starting reign #93. It lasted 336 days and 6 defenses, until Navy took it on October 6, 1945.
For Duke this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
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 visited Duke on November 4, 1944, in a regular season matchup. Duke won 19-13, taking the College Football Belt from Georgia Tech.
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 26238) · This game in the downloadable dataset