Alabama defends the belt, 21–14, at home over Auburn.
AP poll, week 10: Auburn unranked at Alabama No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Alabama came in 330 days into reign #126, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. It was the last defense: Texas took the belt in the very next belt game, on January 1, 1965.
For Auburn this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
It was the 2nd of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Auburn led the belt series 1–0; all-time Alabama leads 5–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Alabama defended the belt on November 26, 1964, defeating Auburn 21-14 in regular season week 12. The victory allowed Alabama to retain the lineal championship.
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 38563) · This game in the downloadable dataset