UCLA takes the belt, 24–19, on the road at Arizona.
AP poll, week 11: UCLA No. 14 at Arizona unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
UCLA took the belt here, ending Arizona’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #192) and starting reign #193. It lasted 14 days and 1 defense, until USC took it on November 23, 1985.
For UCLA this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 5 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, UCLA led the belt series 1–0; all-time UCLA leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
UCLA traveled to Arizona on November 9, 1985, and defeated the belt-holder Arizona 24-19. With this victory, UCLA took possession of 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 53875) · This game in the downloadable dataset