Tulane takes the belt, 27–13, at home over Auburn.
AP poll, week 7: Auburn No. 8 at Tulane unranked · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tulane took the belt here, ending Auburn’s run of 357 days and 9 defenses (reign #111) and starting reign #112. It lasted 14 days and 1 defense, until Vanderbilt took it on November 12, 1955.
For Tulane this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 0–0–1; all-time Tulane leads 1–0–1.
About this game
On October 29, 1955, Tulane defeated Auburn 27-13 at home in a regular season game. With the victory, Tulane took possession of the College Football Belt from Auburn.
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 32939) · This game in the downloadable dataset