Baylor defends the belt, 38–21, on the road at Houston.
AP poll, week 6: Baylor No. 11 at Houston unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Baylor came in 21 days into reign #219, which began with a win over Colorado, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. It was the last defense: Rice took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 12, 1991.
For Houston this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 8 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Baylor led the belt series 1–0; all-time Baylor leads 2–0.
About this game
Baylor visited Houston on October 5, 1991, in a regular season week 6 matchup. Houston won 38-21, but Baylor was the belt holder and retained it 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 57422) · This game in the downloadable dataset