Tennessee defends the belt, 24–7, at home over Kentucky.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tennessee came in 28 days into reign #158, which began with a win over Clemson, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Tennessee went on to defend it 3 more times before UCLA took it on September 20, 1975, 329 days after the reign began.
For Kentucky this was its 15th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 5th of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Tennessee led the belt series 4–0; all-time Tennessee leads 5–0. Every meeting →
About this game
On November 23, 1974, Tennessee defeated Kentucky 24-7 to retain the college football belt in week 12 of the regular season.
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 45501) · This game in the downloadable dataset