Tennessee defends the belt, 41–14, at home over Vanderbilt.
AP poll, week 11: Vanderbilt unranked at Tennessee No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Tennessee. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tennessee came in 14 days into reign #135, which began with a win over Ole Miss, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. It was the last defense: Oklahoma took the belt in the very next belt game, on January 1, 1968.
For Vanderbilt this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 5th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Tennessee led the belt series 4–0; all-time Tennessee leads 5–0–1. Every meeting →
About this game
On December 2, 1967, defending belt holder Tennessee defeated Vanderbilt 41-14 at home in a regular season matchup. Tennessee retained the belt 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 40499) · This game in the downloadable dataset