Alabama defends the belt, 24–0, at home over Vanderbilt.
AP poll, week 4: Vanderbilt unranked at Alabama No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Alabama came in 276 days into reign #126, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Alabama went on to defend it 7 more times before Texas took it on January 1, 1965, 366 days after the reign began.
For Vanderbilt this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Alabama leads 2–0.
About this game
Alabama, holding the belt, defeated visiting Vanderbilt 24-0 on October 3, 1964 in the fourth week of the regular season. Alabama retained the belt with the shutout 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 38081) · This game in the downloadable dataset