Baylor defends the belt, 47–21, at home over Missouri.
AP poll, week 4: Missouri unranked at Baylor No. 14 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Baylor came in 7 days into reign #219, which began with a win over Colorado, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Baylor went on to defend it 2 more times before Rice took it on October 12, 1991, 28 days after the reign began.
For Missouri this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Baylor and Missouri have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Baylor defeated Missouri 47-21 on September 21, 1991, in the fourth week of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, Baylor retained the championship with the victory.
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 57325) · This game in the downloadable dataset