Auburn retains the belt after a 14–14 tie with Kentucky.
AP poll, week 4: Auburn No. 14 at Kentucky No. 19 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Auburn came in 336 days into reign #111, which began with a win over Miami, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Auburn went on to defend it 2 more times before Tulane took it on October 29, 1955, 357 days after the reign began.
For Kentucky this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
This is the only time Auburn and Kentucky have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Auburn visited Kentucky on October 8, 1955, in a week 4 regular season matchup that ended in a 14-14 tie. Under the site's tie rule, the belt holder retains possession on a tie, so Auburn successfully defended 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 32747) · This game in the downloadable dataset