Navy defends the belt, 28–0, at home over Penn State.
AP poll, week 6: Penn State No. 12 at Navy No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Army. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Navy came in 7 days into reign #94, which began with a win over Duke, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Navy went on to defend it 5 more times before Army took it on December 1, 1945, 56 days after the reign began.
For Penn State this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time Navy and Penn State have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Navy defeated Penn State 28-0 on October 13, 1945 in the sixth week of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, Navy retained the championship with the victory.
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 26622) · This game in the downloadable dataset