Tennessee defends the belt, 34–7, at home over Maryland.
AP poll, week 7: Maryland unranked at Tennessee No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tennessee came in 336 days into reign #114, which began with a win over Vanderbilt, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Tennessee went on to defend it 5 more times before Baylor took it on January 1, 1957, 402 days after the reign began.
For Maryland 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 Tennessee leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Tennessee hosted Maryland on October 27, 1956, in a regular season matchup where the Volunteers defeated the Terrapins 34-7 while holding the College Football Belt. With the victory, Tennessee retained possession of the lineal 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 33477) · This game in the downloadable dataset