Georgia defends the belt, 24–0, on the road at South Carolina.
AP poll, week 8: Georgia No. 7 at South Carolina unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Georgia came in 42 days into reign #146, which began with a win over Tulane, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Georgia went on to defend it 1 more time before Auburn took it on November 13, 1971, 56 days after the reign began.
For South Carolina this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Georgia led the belt series 1–0; all-time Georgia leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Georgia traveled to South Carolina on October 30, 1971, as the defending belt holder. South Carolina won the game 24-0, but Georgia retained the belt as the defending champion, as the belt only changes hands when the challenger defeats the holder on the field.
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 42980) · This game in the downloadable dataset