Tennessee defends the belt, 26–8, at home over Maryland.
AP poll, week 2: Maryland No. 14 at Tennessee No. 20 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tennessee came in 322 days into reign #158, which began with a win over Clemson, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. It was the last defense: UCLA took the belt in the very next belt game, on September 20, 1975.
For Maryland this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 4th of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Tennessee led the belt series 3–0; all-time Tennessee leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Tennessee defeated Maryland 26-8 on September 13, 1975, in the second week of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, Tennessee retained the lineal championship 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 45611) · This game in the downloadable dataset