Notre Dame defends the belt, 31–7, on the road at Georgia Tech.
AP poll, week 1: Notre Dame No. 3 at Georgia Tech unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Notre Dame came in 317 days into reign #154, which began with a win over USC, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Notre Dame went on to defend it 1 more time before Purdue took it on September 28, 1974, 336 days after the reign began.
For Georgia Tech this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Notre Dame led the belt series 2–0; all-time Notre Dame leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Notre Dame visited Georgia Tech on September 9, 1974, in the opening week of the regular season. Georgia Tech won 31-7. Notre Dame was the belt holder coming into the game and retained the belt 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 44795) · This game in the downloadable dataset