Tennessee defends the belt, 7–3, at a neutral site over Maryland.
AP poll, week 14: Maryland No. 10 at Tennessee unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tennessee came in 51 days into reign #158, which began with a win over Clemson, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Tennessee went on to defend it 1 more time before UCLA took it on September 20, 1975, 329 days after the reign began.
For Maryland this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 3rd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Tennessee led the belt series 2–0; all-time Tennessee leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Tennessee defended the belt against Maryland in a neutral-site matchup on December 16, 1974, winning 7-3 to retain the championship.
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 45531) · This game in the downloadable dataset