Georgia takes the belt, 17–7, at home over Tulane.
AP poll, week 2: Tulane unranked at Georgia No. 11 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Georgia took the belt here, ending Tulane’s run of 280 days and 1 defense (reign #145) and starting reign #146. It lasted 56 days and 7 defenses, until Auburn took it on November 13, 1971.
For Georgia this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before — and it took it back here.
This is the only time Georgia and Tulane have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Georgia defeated visiting Tulane 17-7 on September 18, 1971 in the second week of the regular season. With the victory, Georgia took possession of the College Football Belt from Tulane.
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 42587) · This game in the downloadable dataset