Tennessee defends the belt, 20–7, at home over Kentucky.
AP poll, week 11: Kentucky unranked at Tennessee No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tennessee came in 364 days into reign #114, which began with a win over Vanderbilt, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Tennessee went on to defend it 1 more time before Baylor took it on January 1, 1957, 402 days after the reign began.
For Kentucky this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 3rd of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Tennessee led the belt series 2–0; all-time Tennessee leads 5–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Tennessee defeated Kentucky 20-7 on November 24, 1956, in a regular season matchup. As the belt's defending holder, Tennessee retained the belt with the victory.
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 33702) · This game in the downloadable dataset