Georgia defends the belt, 35–7, at home over Mississippi State.
AP poll, week 4: Mississippi State unranked at Georgia No. 11 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Georgia came in 14 days into reign #146, which began with a win over Tulane, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Georgia went on to defend it 5 more times before Auburn took it on November 13, 1971, 56 days after the reign began.
For Mississippi State this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Georgia led the belt series 1–0; all-time Georgia leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Georgia, defending the belt, defeated Mississippi State 35-7 on October 2, 1971, in week 4 of the regular season. The home victory allowed Georgia to retain the belt.
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 42723) · This game in the downloadable dataset