Georgia defends the belt, 28–0, on the road at Clemson.
AP poll, week 3: Georgia No. 14 at Clemson unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Georgia came in 7 days into reign #146, which began with a win over Tulane, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Georgia went on to defend it 6 more times before Auburn took it on November 13, 1971, 56 days after the reign began.
For Clemson this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Georgia led the belt series 1–0; all-time Georgia leads 2–0.
About this game
Georgia traveled to Clemson on September 25, 1971, for a week 3 regular season matchup. Clemson defeated Georgia 28-0. As the belt's defending holder, Georgia retained the championship despite the loss.
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 42647) · This game in the downloadable dataset