California defends the belt, 38–31, at home over UCLA.
Where this game sits in the lineage
California came in 21 days into reign #213, which began with a win over Arizona, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. It was the last defense: Washington took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 27, 1990.
For UCLA this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 6 times before.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, UCLA led the belt series 1–0; all-time California leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
California defended the belt on October 20, 1990, defeating visiting UCLA 38-31 in a regular season week 9 matchup. The victory allowed California to retain the lineal 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 56898) · This game in the downloadable dataset