TCU takes the belt, 39–28, on the road at Rice.
Where this game sits in the lineage
TCU took the belt here, ending Rice’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #220) and starting reign #221. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until Baylor took it on October 26, 1991.
For TCU this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time Rice and TCU have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
TCU visited Rice on October 19, 1991, and defeated the Owls 39-28 to claim the College Football Belt. With the victory, TCU took the belt from Rice 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 57556) · This game in the downloadable dataset