Alabama defends the belt, 48–21, at home over Auburn.
AP poll, week 13: Auburn unranked at Alabama No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Alabama came in 49 days into reign #163, which began with a win over USC, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Alabama went on to defend it 3 more times before USC took it on September 23, 1978, 350 days after the reign began.
For Auburn this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before.
It was the 4th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Alabama led the belt series 2–1; all-time Alabama leads 5–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Alabama defended the belt at home against Auburn on November 26, 1977, winning 48-21 in week 13 of the regular season to retain the lineal 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 47980) · This game in the downloadable dataset