Navy defends the belt, 20–6, at home over Georgia Tech.
AP poll, week 7: Georgia Tech unranked at Navy No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Army. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Navy came in 14 days into reign #94, which began with a win over Duke, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Navy went on to defend it 4 more times before Army took it on December 1, 1945, 56 days after the reign began.
For Georgia Tech this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Georgia Tech led the belt series 1–0; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Navy defended the College Football Belt at home against Georgia Tech on October 20, 1945, winning 20-6 to retain the title.
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 26668) · This game in the downloadable dataset