Tennessee defends the belt, 6–0, on the road at Georgia Tech.
AP poll, week 9: Tennessee No. 1 at Georgia Tech No. 4 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tennessee came in 350 days into reign #114, which began with a win over Vanderbilt, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Tennessee went on to defend it 3 more times before Baylor took it on January 1, 1957, 402 days after the reign began.
For Georgia Tech this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Tennessee leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Tennessee traveled to Georgia Tech on November 10, 1956, for a week 9 regular season matchup. Georgia Tech won 6-0, but Tennessee was the defending belt holder and retained the championship despite the loss.
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 33593) · This game in the downloadable dataset