Alabama defends the belt, 31–3, at home over Georgia.
AP poll, week 2: Georgia unranked at Alabama No. 4 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Alabama came in 262 days into reign #126, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Alabama went on to defend it 9 more times before Texas took it on January 1, 1965, 366 days after the reign began.
For Georgia this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Georgia led the belt series 1–0; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Alabama defended the belt at home against Georgia on September 19, 1964, winning 31-3 to retain it in week 2 of the regular season.
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 37966) · This game in the downloadable dataset