Arkansas takes the belt, 27–24, at home over Texas.
AP poll, week 6: Texas No. 5 at Arkansas No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Arkansas took the belt here, ending Texas’ run of 288 days and 4 defenses (reign #127) and starting reign #128. It lasted 77 days and 5 defenses, until LSU took it on January 1, 1966.
For Arkansas this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time Arkansas and Texas have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Arkansas defeated Texas 27-24 on October 16, 1965, taking the College Football Belt from the Longhorns with the victory at home.
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 38842) · This game in the downloadable dataset