Auburn defends the belt, 52–0, at home over Furman.
AP poll, week 6: Furman unranked at Auburn No. 9 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Auburn came in 350 days into reign #111, which began with a win over Miami, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. It was the last defense: Tulane took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 29, 1955.
For Furman this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 2 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Auburn and Furman have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Auburn defended the Belt on October 22, 1955, defeating visiting Furman 52-0 in regular season play. The dominant victory allowed Auburn 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 32844) · This game in the downloadable dataset