Auburn defends the belt, 35–0, at home over Georgia.
AP poll, week 9: Georgia No. 20 at Auburn unranked · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Auburn came in 7 days into reign #111, which began with a win over Miami, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Auburn went on to defend it 8 more times before Tulane took it on October 29, 1955, 357 days after the reign began.
For Georgia this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Auburn led the belt series 1–0; all-time Auburn leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Auburn, defending the belt, hosted Georgia on November 13, 1954 and defeated them 35-0 to retain 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 32432) · This game in the downloadable dataset