Tennessee retains the belt after a 21–21 tie with Vanderbilt.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tennessee came in 35 days into reign #158, which began with a win over Clemson, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Tennessee went on to defend it 2 more times before UCLA took it on September 20, 1975, 329 days after the reign began.
For Vanderbilt this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 6th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Tennessee led the belt series 5–0; all-time Tennessee leads 5–0–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Vanderbilt visited Tennessee on November 30, 1974, in a regular season matchup that ended in a 21-21 tie. Under the belt's tie rule, Tennessee retained the belt as the holder.
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 45528) · This game in the downloadable dataset