Baylor defends the belt, 7–0, at home over Villanova.
AP poll, week 2: Villanova unranked at Baylor No. 11 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Baylor came in 263 days into reign #115, which began with a win over Tennessee, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Baylor went on to defend it 1 more time before Miami took it on October 5, 1957, 277 days after the reign began.
For Villanova this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
This is the only time Baylor and Villanova have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Baylor hosted Villanova on September 21, 1957, in week 2 of the regular season. Baylor won 7-0 and retained the College Football 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 33747) · This game in the downloadable dataset