Stanford defends the belt, 13–7, on the road at California.
AP poll, week 7: Stanford No. 3 at California unranked · No. 1 that week: Minnesota. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Stanford came in 35 days into reign #85, which began with a win over USC, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Stanford went on to defend it 3 more times before Oregon State took it on October 11, 1941, 350 days after the reign began.
For California this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Stanford led the belt series 1–0; all-time Stanford leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Stanford visited California on November 30, 1940, in a regular season matchup. California won the game 13-7, but Stanford retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 24211) · This game in the downloadable dataset