Tennessee defends the belt, 17–7, on the road at Kentucky.
AP poll, week 11: Tennessee No. 2 at Kentucky unranked · No. 1 that week: Tennessee. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tennessee came in 7 days into reign #135, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Tennessee went on to defend it 1 more time before Oklahoma took it on January 1, 1968, 44 days after the reign began.
For Kentucky this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 4th of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Tennessee led the belt series 3–0; all-time Tennessee leads 5–0. Every meeting →
About this game
On November 25, 1967, Tennessee traveled to Kentucky for a regular season matchup. Kentucky won 17-7, but Tennessee was the defending belt holder and retained it with the victory.
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 40482) · This game in the downloadable dataset