Stanford defends the belt, 21–13, at a neutral site over Nebraska.
AP poll, week 7: Nebraska No. 8 at Stanford No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Minnesota. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Stanford came in 67 days into reign #85, which began with a win over USC, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Stanford went on to defend it 2 more times before Oregon State took it on October 11, 1941, 350 days after the reign began.
For Nebraska this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time Nebraska and Stanford have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Stanford defended the College Football Belt on January 1, 1941, defeating Nebraska 21-13 in a postseason matchup. The victory allowed Stanford to retain the belt.
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 24227) · This game in the downloadable dataset