Alabama defends the belt, 19–8, on the road at Tennessee.
AP poll, week 6: Alabama No. 3 at Tennessee unranked · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Alabama came in 290 days into reign #126, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Alabama went on to defend it 5 more times before Texas took it on January 1, 1965, 366 days after the reign began.
For Tennessee this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before.
It was the 5th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Tennessee led the belt series 3–1; all-time Alabama leads 4–3. Every meeting →
About this game
Alabama traveled to Tennessee on October 17, 1964, as the defending belt holder. Tennessee won the game 19-8, but Alabama retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 38198) · This game in the downloadable dataset