Army defends the belt, 21–7, at home over Oklahoma.
AP poll, week 3: Oklahoma No. 14 at Army No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Army. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 301 days into reign #95, which began with a win over Navy, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Army went on to defend it 12 more times before Columbia took it on October 25, 1947, 693 days after the reign began.
For Oklahoma this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Army and Oklahoma have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Army defeated Oklahoma 21-7 on September 28, 1946, in the third week of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, Army 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 27011) · This game in the downloadable dataset