Auburn takes the belt, 14–13, at home over Miami.
AP poll, week 8: Miami No. 6 at Auburn unranked · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Auburn took the belt here, ending Miami’s run of 22 days and 2 defenses (reign #110) and starting reign #111. It lasted 357 days and 9 defenses, until Tulane took it on October 29, 1955.
For Auburn this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before — and it took it back here.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Auburn defeated Miami 14-13 on November 6, 1954, in week 8 of the regular season. With this victory, Auburn took the College Football Belt from Miami.
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 32377) · This game in the downloadable dataset