Tennessee defends the belt, 35–0, on the road at North Carolina.
AP poll, week 8: Tennessee No. 9 at North Carolina unranked · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tennessee came in 7 days into reign #119, which began with a win over Maryland, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Tennessee went on to defend it 1 more time before Ole Miss took it on November 16, 1957, 21 days after the reign began.
For North Carolina this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Tennessee led the belt series 1–0; all-time Tennessee leads 2–0.
About this game
Tennessee visited North Carolina on November 2, 1957, in a regular season matchup. North Carolina won 35-0. As the belt's defending champion, Tennessee retained the title 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 34116) · This game in the downloadable dataset