California takes the belt, 30–25, on the road at Arizona.
AP poll, week 6: California unranked at Arizona No. 25 · No. 1 that week: Texas A&M. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
California took the belt here, ending Arizona’s run of 21 days and 2 defenses (reign #212) and starting reign #213. It lasted 28 days and 3 defenses, until Washington took it on October 27, 1990.
For California this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time Arizona and California have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
California visited Arizona on September 29, 1990, in a Week 6 regular season matchup. Arizona led 30-25, but California won the game on the field, taking the belt from the home team.
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 56748) · This game in the downloadable dataset