Oklahoma takes the belt, 26–24, at a neutral site over Tennessee.
AP poll, week 11: Tennessee No. 2 at Oklahoma No. 5 · No. 1 that week: Tennessee. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Oklahoma took the belt here, ending Tennessee’s run of 44 days and 2 defenses (reign #135) and starting reign #136. It lasted 264 days and 0 defenses, until Notre Dame took it on September 21, 1968.
For Oklahoma this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Tennessee led the belt series 1–0; all-time Oklahoma leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Tennessee traveled to a neutral site to face Oklahoma on January 1, 1968, in a postseason matchup. Oklahoma won 26-24, taking the College Football Belt from Tennessee by virtue of the victory on the field.
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 40510) · This game in the downloadable dataset