UCLA defends the belt, 27–24, on the road at BYU.
AP poll, week 2: UCLA No. 20 at BYU No. 8 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
UCLA came in 294 days into reign #189, which began with a win over USC, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. UCLA went on to defend it 2 more times before Washington took it on September 28, 1985, 315 days after the reign began.
For BYU this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time BYU and UCLA have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
UCLA visited BYU on September 7, 1985, in a week 2 regular season matchup. UCLA won 24-27 to retain the College Football Belt.
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 53387) · This game in the downloadable dataset