UCLA defends the belt, 34–16, at home over San Diego State.
AP poll, week 4: San Diego State unranked at UCLA No. 12 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
UCLA came in 308 days into reign #189, which began with a win over USC, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. It was the last defense: Washington took the belt in the very next belt game, on September 28, 1985.
For San Diego State this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 4 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time San Diego State and UCLA have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
UCLA defended the belt at home against San Diego State on September 21, 1985, winning 34-16 to retain it.
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 53498) · This game in the downloadable dataset