Texas defends the belt, 33–7, at home over Texas Tech.
AP poll, week 3: Texas Tech unranked at Texas No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Texas came in 267 days into reign #127, which began with a win over Alabama, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Texas went on to defend it 2 more times before Arkansas took it on October 16, 1965, 288 days after the reign began.
For Texas Tech this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Texas defeated Texas Tech 33-7 on September 25, 1965, in the third week of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, Texas 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 38706) · This game in the downloadable dataset