Stanford defends the belt, 48–10, at home over Oregon State.
AP poll, week 10: Oregon State unranked at Stanford No. 6 · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Stanford came in 21 days into reign #142, which began with a win over USC, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Stanford went on to defend it 1 more time before Air Force took it on November 14, 1970, 35 days after the reign began.
For Oregon State this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 3rd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 1–1; all-time Stanford leads 3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Stanford hosted Oregon State on October 31, 1970, in a regular season matchup where the Cardinal defeated the Beavers 48-10 to retain the college football belt.
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 42287) · This game in the downloadable dataset