Tulane takes the belt, 17–3, at a neutral site over Colorado.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tulane took the belt here, ending Colorado’s run of 21 days and 0 defenses (reign #144) and starting reign #145. It lasted 280 days and 1 defense, until Georgia took it on September 18, 1971.
For Tulane this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
This is the only time Colorado and Tulane have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Colorado visited Tulane on December 12, 1970, in a postseason matchup played at a neutral site. Tulane won 17-3, taking the College Football Belt from Colorado by virtue of the victory on the field.
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 42512) · This game in the downloadable dataset