Georgia Tech defends the belt, 17–3, on the road at Auburn.
AP poll, week 6: Georgia Tech No. 6 at Auburn unranked · No. 1 that week: Alabama. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Georgia Tech came in 7 days into reign #132, which began with a win over Tennessee, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Georgia Tech went on to defend it 4 more times before Georgia took it on November 26, 1966, 49 days after the reign began.
For Auburn this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
It was the 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 1–1; all-time Georgia Tech leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Georgia Tech visited Auburn on October 15, 1966, in a regular season matchup. Georgia Tech won 17-3, allowing the belt-holding Yellow Jackets to retain their claim to 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 39496) · This game in the downloadable dataset