Army retains the belt after a 0–0 tie with Notre Dame.
AP poll, week 8: Army No. 1 at Notre Dame No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Army. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Army came in 343 days into reign #95, which began with a win over Navy, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Army went on to defend it 6 more times before Columbia took it on October 25, 1947, 693 days after the reign began.
For Notre Dame this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Notre Dame led the belt series 1–0; all-time Notre Dame leads 1–0–1.
About this game
Army visited Notre Dame on November 9, 1946, in a regular season matchup that ended in a 0-0 tie. Under the belt's tie rule, Army retained the championship.
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 27411) · This game in the downloadable dataset