Auburn takes the belt, 35–20, on the road at Georgia.
AP poll, week 10: Auburn No. 6 at Georgia No. 7 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Auburn took the belt here, ending Georgia’s run of 56 days and 7 defenses (reign #146) and starting reign #147. It lasted 14 days and 0 defenses, until Alabama took it on November 27, 1971.
For Auburn this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 3rd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Auburn led the belt series 2–0; all-time Auburn leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Auburn traveled to Georgia on November 13, 1971, and defeated the Bulldogs 35-20 to claim the College Football Belt. With this victory, Auburn took the lineal championship from Georgia 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 43107) · This game in the downloadable dataset