Duke defends the belt, 34–0, at home over Wake Forest.
AP poll, week 8: Wake Forest unranked at Duke No. 11 · No. 1 that week: Army. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Duke came in 7 days into reign #93, which began with a win over Georgia Tech, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Duke went on to defend it 5 more times before Navy took it on October 6, 1945, 336 days after the reign began.
For Wake Forest this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 3 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Duke and Wake Forest have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Duke hosted Wake Forest on November 11, 1944, in a regular season matchup. Duke won 34-0, maintaining 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 26286) · This game in the downloadable dataset