Georgia defends the belt, 24–0, on the road at Vanderbilt.
AP poll, week 6: Georgia No. 8 at Vanderbilt unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Georgia came in 28 days into reign #146, which began with a win over Tulane, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Georgia went on to defend it 3 more times before Auburn took it on November 13, 1971, 56 days after the reign began.
For Vanderbilt this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time Georgia and Vanderbilt have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Georgia visited Vanderbilt on October 16, 1971, in a regular season matchup. Georgia won 24-0, allowing the belt-holding Bulldogs to retain the lineal championship.
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 42853) · This game in the downloadable dataset