Colorado defends the belt, 30–13, at home over Wyoming.
AP poll, week 2: Wyoming unranked at Colorado No. 12 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Colorado came in 249 days into reign #218, which began with a win over Notre Dame, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. It was the last defense: Baylor took the belt in the very next belt game, on September 14, 1991.
For Wyoming this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Colorado and Wyoming have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Colorado, defending the belt, hosted Wyoming on September 7, 1991, in a regular season week 2 matchup. Colorado won 30-13 and retained the 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 57232) · This game in the downloadable dataset