UCLA defends the belt, 38–28, on the road at Pittsburgh.
AP poll, week 2: UCLA No. 8 at Pittsburgh unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
UCLA came in 7 days into reign #150, which began with a win over Nebraska, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. It was the last defense: Michigan took the belt in the very next belt game, on September 23, 1972.
For Pittsburgh this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time Pittsburgh and UCLA have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
UCLA visited Pittsburgh on September 16, 1972, in a regular season week 2 matchup. Pittsburgh won 38-28, but UCLA was the belt holder and retained it with the victory.
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 43359) · This game in the downloadable dataset