Texas defends the belt, 19–0, at home over Oklahoma.
AP poll, week 5: Oklahoma 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 281 days into reign #127, which began with a win over Alabama, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. It was the last defense: Arkansas took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 16, 1965.
For Oklahoma this was its 3rd 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 Texas leads 2–0.
About this game
Texas defeated Oklahoma 19-0 on October 9, 1965, in the fifth week of the regular season. As the defending belt holder, Texas retained the belt 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 38823) · This game in the downloadable dataset