Vanderbilt defends the belt, 21–6, at home over Florida.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Vanderbilt came in 7 days into reign #113, which began with a win over Tulane, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. It was the last defense: Tennessee took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 26, 1955.
For Florida this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 4 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Florida leads 3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Vanderbilt hosted Florida on November 19, 1955, in a regular season matchup during week 10 of the 1955 season. Vanderbilt won 21-6, retaining the College Football 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 33105) · This game in the downloadable dataset