Arizona defends the belt, 22–17, at home over Oregon.
AP poll, week 5: Oregon unranked at Arizona No. 16 · No. 1 that week: Texas A&M. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Arizona came in 14 days into reign #212, which began with a win over Illinois, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. It was the last defense: California took the belt in the very next belt game, on September 29, 1990.
For Oregon this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Arizona defended the belt at home against Oregon on September 22, 1990, winning 22-17 to retain the championship.
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 56689) · This game in the downloadable dataset