Alabama defends the belt, 21–0, at home over NC State.
AP poll, week 5: NC State 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 283 days into reign #126, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Alabama went on to defend it 6 more times before Texas took it on January 1, 1965, 366 days after the reign began.
For NC State this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Alabama and NC State have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Alabama hosted NC State on October 10, 1964, in a regular season matchup and defeated the visiting Wolfpack 21-0. As the belt's defending champion, Alabama retained the title with the 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 38139) · This game in the downloadable dataset