Texas A&M takes the belt, 7–0, on the road at Washington State.
AP poll, week 7: Texas A&M No. 2 at Washington State unranked · No. 1 that week: Minnesota. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Texas A&M took the belt here, ending Washington State’s run of 42 days and 4 defenses (reign #87) and starting reign #88. It lasted 26 days and 0 defenses, until Alabama took it on January 1, 1942.
For Texas A&M this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time Texas A&M and Washington State have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Texas A&M defeated Washington State 7-0 on December 6, 1941, in the twelfth week of the regular season. With this victory, Texas A&M took possession of the College Football Belt from Washington State.
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 24853) · This game in the downloadable dataset