Baylor defends the belt, 45–7, on the road at SMU.
AP poll, week 5: Baylor No. 12 at SMU unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Baylor came in 14 days into reign #219, which began with a win over Colorado, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Baylor went on to defend it 1 more time before Rice took it on October 12, 1991, 28 days after the reign began.
For SMU this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 5 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Baylor and SMU have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Baylor visited SMU on September 28, 1991, in a week 5 regular season matchup, with the belt on the line. Baylor won 45-7 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 57374) · This game in the downloadable dataset