Stanford defends the belt, 9–7, on the road at UCLA.
AP poll, week 9: Stanford No. 6 at UCLA No. 16 · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Stanford came in 14 days into reign #142, which began with a win over USC, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Stanford went on to defend it 2 more times before Air Force took it on November 14, 1970, 35 days after the reign began.
For UCLA this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 3rd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Stanford led the belt series 2–0; all-time Stanford leads 3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Stanford visited UCLA on October 24, 1970, in a week 9 regular season matchup. UCLA won the game 9-7, but Stanford retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 42221) · This game in the downloadable dataset