UCLA defends the belt, 38–20, at home over Stanford.
AP poll, week 6: Stanford unranked at UCLA No. 4 · No. 1 that week: Pittsburgh. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
UCLA came in 282 days into reign #161, which began with a win over Ohio State, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. UCLA went on to defend it 5 more times before USC took it on November 20, 1976, 324 days after the reign began.
For Stanford this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before.
It was the 4th of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Stanford led the belt series 3–0; all-time Stanford leads 3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
UCLA defeated Stanford 38-20 on October 9, 1976 in week 6 of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, UCLA retained the championship 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 46700) · This game in the downloadable dataset