Texas defends the belt, 27–12, at home over Indiana.
AP poll, week 4: Indiana 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 274 days into reign #127, which began with a win over Alabama, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Texas went on to defend it 1 more time before Arkansas took it on October 16, 1965, 288 days after the reign began.
For Indiana this was its 2nd 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.
This is the only time Indiana and Texas have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Texas defeated Indiana 27-12 on October 2, 1965, in the fourth 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 38765) · This game in the downloadable dataset