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The Rocky Mountain Belt

A companion lineage restricted to Rocky Mountain: the belt passes to whoever beats the holder, exactly like the real belt, but only games between two Rocky Mountain members COUNT — and only for the seasons both sides were actually in Rocky Mountain at the time. This belt is retired. Colorado held it when Rocky Mountain played its last game on November 25, 1937, and the reign is closed as of June 30, 1938: the Rocky Mountain Conference's major programs left to form the Mountain States (Skyline) Conference in 1938.

41Reigns
162Belt Games
11Programs
Longest Reign
Utah — 5 yrs, 29 days
October 20, 1928 – November 18, 1933
Most Defenses, One Reign
Utah — 33
starting October 20, 1928
Most Reigns, All-Time
Colorado — 7 separate reigns
11 Rocky Mountain programs have held it
#TeamReignLength Def.Won itLost it
1 Colorado State October 16, 1909 – October 23, 1909 7 days 0 Established it (first game on record) lost to Colorado
2 Colorado October 23, 1909 – October 12, 1912 2 yrs, 355 days 9 beat Colorado State 57–0 lost to Colorado State
3 Colorado State October 12, 1912 – October 19, 1912 7 days 0 beat Colorado 21–0 lost to Colorado College
4 Colorado College October 19, 1912 – November 2, 1912 14 days 0 beat Colorado State 13–0 lost to Colorado
5 Colorado November 2, 1912 – November 23, 1912 21 days 1 beat Colorado College 10–7 lost to Colorado School of Mines
6 Colorado School of Mines November 23, 1912 – November 15, 1913 357 days 4 beat Colorado 24–3 lost to Colorado
7 Colorado November 15, 1913 – October 10, 1914 329 days 0 beat Colorado School of Mines 20–0 lost to Colorado School of Mines
8 Colorado School of Mines October 10, 1914 – October 23, 1915 1 yr, 13 days 6 beat Colorado 6–2 lost to Utah
9 Utah October 23, 1915 – November 6, 1915 14 days 1 beat Colorado School of Mines 7–0 lost to Colorado College
10 Colorado College November 6, 1915 – November 13, 1915 7 days 0 beat Utah 27–7 lost to Colorado State
11 Colorado State November 13, 1915 – October 6, 1917 1 yr, 327 days 8 beat Colorado College 24–13 lost to Wyoming
12 Wyoming October 6, 1917 – October 13, 1917 7 days 0 beat Colorado State 6–0 lost to Colorado School of Mines
13 Colorado School of Mines October 13, 1917 – October 27, 1917 14 days 0 beat Wyoming 51–3 lost to Colorado
14 Colorado October 27, 1917 – November 17, 1917 21 days 2 beat Colorado School of Mines 12–0 lost to Utah State
15 Utah State November 17, 1917 – November 8, 1919 1 yr, 356 days 2 beat Colorado 23–0 lost to Colorado State
16 Colorado State November 8, 1919 – November 27, 1919 19 days 1 beat Utah State 27–7 lost to Colorado College
17 Colorado College November 27, 1919 – November 11, 1920 350 days 4 beat Colorado State 13–0 lost to Colorado State
18 Colorado State November 11, 1920 – November 5, 1921 359 days 5 beat Colorado College 28–0 lost to Denver
19 Denver November 5, 1921 – November 24, 1921 19 days 1 beat Colorado State 21–14 lost to Colorado College
20 Colorado College November 24, 1921 – November 4, 1922 345 days 2 beat Denver 28–21 lost to Utah
21 Utah November 4, 1922 – November 10, 1923 1 yr, 6 days 3 beat Colorado College 20–7 lost to Colorado College
22 Colorado College November 10, 1923 – October 4, 1924 329 days 2 beat Utah 7–6 lost to BYU
23 BYU October 4, 1924 – October 11, 1924 7 days 0 beat Colorado College 3–0 lost to Montana State
24 Montana State October 11, 1924 – November 5, 1924 25 days 1 beat BYU 13–0 lost to Wyoming
25 Wyoming November 5, 1924 – November 15, 1924 10 days 0 beat Montana State 18–17 lost to Utah
26 Utah November 15, 1924 – November 26, 1925 1 yr, 11 days 6 beat Wyoming 28–0 lost to Utah State
27 Utah State November 26, 1925 – November 25, 1926 364 days 6 beat Utah 10–6 lost to Utah
28 Utah November 25, 1926 – October 29, 1927 338 days 2 beat Utah State 34–0 lost to Colorado State
29 Colorado State October 29, 1927 – October 20, 1928 357 days 6 beat Utah 12–0 lost to Utah
30 Utah October 20, 1928 – November 18, 1933 5 yrs, 29 days 33 beat Colorado State 6–0 lost to Denver
31 Denver November 18, 1933 – November 30, 1933 12 days 0 beat Utah 13–0 lost to Colorado
32 Colorado November 30, 1933 – October 12, 1934 316 days 0 beat Denver 14–7 lost to Northern Colorado
33 Northern Colorado October 12, 1934 – October 12, 1935 1 yr 4 beat Colorado 13–7 lost to BYU
34 BYU October 12, 1935 – October 19, 1935 7 days 0 beat Northern Colorado 19–3 lost to Colorado College
35 Colorado College October 19, 1935 – November 2, 1935 14 days 0 beat BYU 13–12 lost to Colorado
36 Colorado November 2, 1935 – November 23, 1935 21 days 1 beat Colorado College 23–0 lost to Wyoming
37 Wyoming November 23, 1935 – October 2, 1936 314 days 0 beat Colorado 6–0 lost to Northern Colorado
38 Northern Colorado October 2, 1936 – October 9, 1936 7 days 0 beat Wyoming 13–7 lost to BYU
39 BYU October 9, 1936 – October 17, 1936 8 days 0 beat Northern Colorado 33–0 lost to Utah State
40 Utah State October 17, 1936 – October 9, 1937 357 days 5 beat BYU 13–0 lost to Colorado
41 Colorado October 9, 1937 – June 30, 1938 264 days 6 beat Utah State 33–0 — belt retired —

No reigns match “.”

Membership is judged season by season from every game a team played, so realignment moves a team’s games with it. A holder that stays in Rocky Mountain keeps the belt through any stretch without a game against another member; a holder that leaves vacates the belt on its last game as a member, and it reverts to the most recent earlier holder that is a member of the season it left for. If no one is left to inherit it, the belt retires with its last holder. Days count the offseason; switch to games to measure a reign by belt games only.

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