Georgia defends the belt, 24–17, on the road at Clemson.
AP poll, week 4: Georgia No. 5 at Clemson unranked · No. 1 that week: Georgia. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Georgia came in 308 days into reign #133, which began with a win over Georgia Tech, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Georgia went on to defend it 1 more time before Ole Miss took it on October 14, 1967, 322 days after the reign began.
For Clemson this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Georgia leads 2–0.
About this game
Georgia visited Clemson on September 30, 1967, in a regular season week 4 matchup. Georgia won 24-17 and retained the college football belt as the defending champion.
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 39985) · This game in the downloadable dataset