Rice takes the belt, 20–17, on the road at Baylor.
AP poll, week 7: Rice unranked at Baylor No. 8 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Rice took the belt here, ending Baylor’s run of 28 days and 3 defenses (reign #219) and starting reign #220. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until TCU took it on October 19, 1991.
For Rice this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
This is the only time Baylor and Rice have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Rice visited Baylor on October 12, 1991, in a regular season Week 7 matchup. Baylor fell 17-20 at home, and Rice took the belt from the Bears with the victory on the field.
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 57504) · This game in the downloadable dataset