Colorado takes the belt, 49–19, on the road at Air Force.
AP poll, week 13: Colorado unranked at Air Force No. 11 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Colorado took the belt here, ending Air Force’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #143) and starting reign #144. It lasted 21 days and 0 defenses, until Tulane took it on December 12, 1970.
For Colorado this was its 3rd 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 Colorado have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
On November 21, 1970, Colorado visited Air Force and defeated the belt holder 49-19. With this victory, Colorado took possession of 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 42437) · This game in the downloadable dataset