Baylor takes the belt, 16–14, on the road at Colorado.
AP poll, week 3: Baylor No. 23 at Colorado No. 12 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Baylor took the belt here, ending Colorado’s run of 256 days and 1 defense (reign #218) and starting reign #219. It lasted 28 days and 3 defenses, until Rice took it on October 12, 1991.
For Baylor this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
This is the only time Baylor and Colorado have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Baylor traveled to Colorado on September 14, 1991, for a Week 3 regular season matchup. Colorado held the belt entering the game but fell 14-16, giving Baylor control of 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 57273) · This game in the downloadable dataset