Tennessee takes the belt, 20–14, at home over Vanderbilt.
AP poll, week 11: Vanderbilt No. 19 at Tennessee unranked · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tennessee took the belt here, ending Vanderbilt’s run of 14 days and 1 defense (reign #113) and starting reign #114. It lasted 402 days and 10 defenses, until Baylor took it on January 1, 1957.
For Tennessee this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the 3rd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Tennessee led the belt series 2–0; all-time Tennessee leads 5–0–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Vanderbilt visited Tennessee on November 26, 1955, in a regular season matchup. Tennessee won 20-14, taking the College Football Belt from Vanderbilt on the field.
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 33135) · This game in the downloadable dataset