UCLA defends the belt, 45–14, on the road at Oregon State.
AP poll, week 11: UCLA No. 2 at Oregon State unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
UCLA came in 317 days into reign #161, which began with a win over Ohio State, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. It was the last defense: USC took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 20, 1976.
For Oregon State this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time UCLA leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
UCLA traveled to Oregon State on November 13, 1976, in week 11 of the regular season as the defending belt holder. Oregon State won the game 45-14, but UCLA retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 47039) · This game in the downloadable dataset