Arkansas defends the belt, 31–0, on the road at Rice.
AP poll, week 9: Arkansas No. 2 at Rice unranked · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Arkansas came in 21 days into reign #128, which began with a win over Texas, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Arkansas went on to defend it 2 more times before LSU took it on January 1, 1966, 77 days after the reign began.
For Rice this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Arkansas and Rice have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Arkansas, the defending belt holder, traveled to Rice on November 6, 1965 and defeated the Owls 31-0 to retain the belt in week 9 of the regular season.
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 39029) · This game in the downloadable dataset