Alabama beats Texas A&M 33–14 and takes the College Football Belt
The 10th reign for the program; it ends Texas A&M’s 28-day reign of 2 defenses.
Alabama took the lineal College Football Belt on October 22, 2016, beating Texas A&M 33–14 at home in week 8. It is reign 297 in the belt’s history, which starts with Rutgers over Princeton in 1869, and the 10th for Alabama.
Texas A&M had held it since September 24, 2016: 28 days and 2 defenses.
Alabama last held the belt in 2010, 2,205 days before this one; that reign lasted 308 days with 6 defenses.
The reign lasted 79 days and 6 defenses, ending January 9, 2017 against Clemson.
The game
Alabama's defense and special teams controlled this belt-deciding matchup from the opening drive, with Adam Griffith's early field goals setting the tone before Jalen Hurts connected with O.J. Howard for a touchdown to make it 13-0. Texas A&M mounted a brief second-quarter comeback, with Trevor Knight engineering a scoring drive capped by a 9-yard touchdown pass to Josh Reynolds, but Alabama's…