Tennessee defends the belt, 21–6, at home over Georgia Tech.
AP poll, week 9: Georgia Tech unranked at Tennessee No. 7 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tennessee came in 14 days into reign #119, which began with a win over Maryland, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. It was the last defense: Ole Miss took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 16, 1957.
For Georgia Tech this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Tennessee led the belt series 1–0; all-time Tennessee leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Tennessee defended the belt at home against Georgia Tech on November 9, 1957, winning 21-6 to retain it.
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 34174) · This game in the downloadable dataset