Auburn defends the belt, 28–0, at home over Alabama.
AP poll, week 11: Alabama unranked at Auburn No. 15 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Auburn came in 21 days into reign #111, which began with a win over Miami, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Auburn went on to defend it 6 more times before Tulane took it on October 29, 1955, 357 days after the reign began.
For Alabama this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the first of 7 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Alabama leads 5–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Auburn, defending the belt, defeated Alabama 28-0 on November 27, 1954, in Auburn. With the victory, Auburn retained 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 32545) · This game in the downloadable dataset