Georgia defends the belt, 34–0, at home over Kentucky.
AP poll, week 7: Kentucky unranked at Georgia No. 8 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Georgia came in 35 days into reign #146, which began with a win over Tulane, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Georgia went on to defend it 2 more times before Auburn took it on November 13, 1971, 56 days after the reign began.
For Kentucky this was its 14th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Georgia leads 2–0.
About this game
Georgia, holding the belt, defeated visiting Kentucky 34-0 on October 23, 1971, in the seventh week of the regular season. The shutout victory allowed Georgia 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 42924) · This game in the downloadable dataset