Baylor defends the belt, 14–6, at home over Houston.
AP poll, week 3: Houston 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 270 days into reign #115, which began with a win over Tennessee, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. It was the last defense: Miami took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 5, 1957.
For Houston this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 8 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Baylor leads 2–0.
About this game
Baylor defeated Houston 14-6 on September 28, 1957, in the third week of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, Baylor retained the championship with the victory.
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 33793) · This game in the downloadable dataset