Auburn defends the belt, 14–12, on the road at Georgia Tech.
AP poll, week 5: Auburn No. 17 at Georgia Tech No. 5 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Auburn came in 343 days into reign #111, which began with a win over Miami, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Auburn went on to defend it 1 more time before Tulane took it on October 29, 1955, 357 days after the reign began.
For Georgia Tech this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Georgia Tech led the belt series 1–0; all-time Georgia Tech leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Auburn traveled to Georgia Tech on October 15, 1955, in a week 5 regular season matchup. Georgia Tech won 14-12, but Auburn retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 32787) · This game in the downloadable dataset