Auburn defends the belt, 27–6, at home over Clemson.
AP poll, week 10: Clemson unranked at Auburn No. 18 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Auburn came in 14 days into reign #111, which began with a win over Miami, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Auburn went on to defend it 7 more times before Tulane took it on October 29, 1955, 357 days after the reign began.
For Clemson this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Auburn led the belt series 1–0; all-time it is 2–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Auburn, defending the belt, hosted Clemson on November 20, 1954, in a regular season matchup. Auburn won 27-6, retaining the belt.
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 32489) · This game in the downloadable dataset