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Battle for the Belt Greatest Games
The series' top 14 meetings, ranked without team allegiance by game-time AP strength, final-score closeness, and overtime.
- Games
- 14
- Top score
- 37/100
- Overtime
- 1
Series context
- Completed meetings
- 14
- Series record
- South Alabama 4-10 Troy
- Tracked years
- 2012-2025
- Trophy
- The Belt
Series ranking
The rivalry's top 14 games
0 of these games include at least one AP-ranked team at kickoff. Open a supported game for its box score and statistics.
Methodology
How each game earns up to 100 points
AP ranking, 50 points: each team earns 26 minus its game-time AP rank. Unranked teams receive zero.
Closeness, 35 points: the final margin is subtracted from 35, with margins of 35 or more receiving zero.
Overtime, 15 points: overtime starts at nine points and rises by two per additional period, capped at 15.
Regular-season rankings use the AP Top 25 recorded for the game's week. Postseason meetings use the final regular-season AP poll before bowl and playoff results. Games before 2005 remain in the ranking but do not link to unsupported box-score pages. Videos are matched by canonical game ID or by a rematch-safe season matchup.