Air Force takes the belt, 31–14, at home over Stanford.
AP poll, week 12: Stanford No. 13 at Air Force No. 12 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Air Force took the belt here, ending Stanford’s run of 35 days and 4 defenses (reign #142) and starting reign #143. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until Colorado took it on November 21, 1970.
For Air Force this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time Air Force and Stanford have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Air Force defeated Stanford 31-14 on November 14, 1970, in week 12 of the regular season. With this victory, Air Force took the College Football Belt from Stanford.
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 42365) · This game in the downloadable dataset