Duke defends the belt, 60–0, at home over South Carolina.
AP poll, week 3: South Carolina unranked at Duke No. 19 · No. 1 that week: Army. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Duke came in 322 days into reign #93, which began with a win over Georgia Tech, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Duke went on to defend it 1 more time before Navy took it on October 6, 1945, 336 days after the reign began.
For South Carolina this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Duke led the belt series 1–0; all-time Duke leads 2–0.
About this game
Duke hosted South Carolina on September 22, 1945, in week 3 of the regular season. Duke won 60-0 and retained 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 26447) · This game in the downloadable dataset