Alabama takes the belt, 31–7, at home over Auburn.
AP poll, week 12: Auburn No. 5 at Alabama No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Alabama took the belt here, ending Auburn’s run of 14 days and 0 defenses (reign #147) and starting reign #148. It lasted 35 days and 0 defenses, until Nebraska took it on January 1, 1972.
For Alabama this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 3rd of 7 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 1–1; all-time Alabama leads 5–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Auburn visited Alabama on November 27, 1971, in a regular season matchup. Alabama won 31-7, taking the College Football Belt from Auburn with the victory.
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 43229) · This game in the downloadable dataset