UCLA defends the belt, 46–0, at home over Oregon.
AP poll, week 10: Oregon unranked at UCLA No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Pittsburgh. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
UCLA came in 310 days into reign #161, which began with a win over Ohio State, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. UCLA went on to defend it 1 more time before USC took it on November 20, 1976, 324 days after the reign began.
For Oregon this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
UCLA defeated Oregon 46-0 on November 6, 1976 in a regular season Week 10 matchup. The defending belt holder UCLA retained the belt 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 46967) · This game in the downloadable dataset