Duke defends the belt, 33–0, on the road at North Carolina.
AP poll, week 8: Duke No. 11 at North Carolina unranked · No. 1 that week: Army. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Duke came in 21 days into reign #93, which began with a win over Georgia Tech, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Duke went on to defend it 3 more times before Navy took it on October 6, 1945, 336 days after the reign began.
For North Carolina this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Duke and North Carolina have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Duke traveled to North Carolina on November 25, 1944, as the defending belt holder. North Carolina won the game 33-0, but Duke retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 26380) · This game in the downloadable dataset