Georgia Tech defends the belt, 48–7, on the road at Duke.
AP poll, week 8: Georgia Tech No. 5 at Duke unranked · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Georgia Tech came in 21 days into reign #132, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Georgia Tech went on to defend it 2 more times before Georgia took it on November 26, 1966, 49 days after the reign began.
For Duke this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Duke led the belt series 1–0; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Georgia Tech visited Duke on October 29, 1966, in a regular season matchup. Georgia Tech won 48-7, maintaining possession of the College Football Belt.
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 39620) · This game in the downloadable dataset