Alabama defends the belt, 17–14, at home over Florida.
AP poll, week 7: Florida No. 9 at Alabama No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Alabama came in 297 days into reign #126, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Alabama went on to defend it 4 more times before Texas took it on January 1, 1965, 366 days after the reign began.
For Florida this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 8 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Alabama leads 7–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Alabama defended the belt at home against Florida on October 24, 1964, winning 17-14 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 38262) · This game in the downloadable dataset