Tennessee defends the belt, 24–0, at home over Alabama.
AP poll, week 6: Alabama unranked at Tennessee No. 4 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tennessee came in 329 days into reign #114, which began with a win over Vanderbilt, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Tennessee went on to defend it 6 more times before Baylor took it on January 1, 1957, 402 days after the reign began.
For Alabama this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 4th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Tennessee led the belt series 2–1; all-time Alabama leads 4–3. Every meeting →
About this game
Tennessee defended the belt at home against Alabama on October 20, 1956, winning 24-0 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 33418) · This game in the downloadable dataset