Arkansas defends the belt, 31–0, at home over Texas A&M.
AP poll, week 8: Texas A&M unranked at Arkansas No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Arkansas came in 14 days into reign #128, which began with a win over Texas, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Arkansas went on to defend it 3 more times before LSU took it on January 1, 1966, 77 days after the reign began.
For Texas A&M this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
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
Arkansas defended the belt at home against Texas A&M on October 30, 1965, winning 31-0 to retain the championship.
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 38966) · This game in the downloadable dataset