Tennessee takes the belt, 16–0, on the road at Maryland.
AP poll, week 7: Tennessee No. 17 at Maryland unranked · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tennessee took the belt here, ending Maryland’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #118) and starting reign #119. It lasted 21 days and 2 defenses, until Ole Miss took it on November 16, 1957.
For Tennessee this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Tennessee led the belt series 1–0; all-time Tennessee leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Tennessee defeated Maryland 16-0 on October 26, 1957, in College Park. With this victory, Tennessee took possession of the College Football Belt from Maryland.
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 34057) · This game in the downloadable dataset