UCLA defends the belt, 41–0, at home over Oregon State.
AP poll, week 12: Oregon State unranked at UCLA No. 13 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
UCLA came in 7 days into reign #193, which began with a win over Arizona, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. It was the last defense: USC took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 23, 1985.
For Oregon State this was its 15th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
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 defended the belt against Oregon State on November 16, 1985, winning 41-0 at home to retain the title.
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 53925) · This game in the downloadable dataset