Georgia Tech takes the belt, 6–3, at home over Tennessee.
AP poll, week 5: Tennessee unranked at Georgia Tech No. 7 · No. 1 that week: Alabama. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Georgia Tech took the belt here, ending Tennessee’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #131) and starting reign #132. It lasted 49 days and 5 defenses, until Georgia took it on November 26, 1966.
For Georgia Tech this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Tennessee led the belt series 2–0; all-time Tennessee leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Georgia Tech defeated Tennessee 6-3 on October 8, 1966, in Atlanta during week 5 of the regular season. With this victory on the field, Georgia Tech took possession of the College Football Belt from Tennessee.
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 39434) · This game in the downloadable dataset