Baylor takes the belt, 26–9, at home over TCU.
AP poll, week 9: TCU unranked at Baylor No. 22 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Baylor took the belt here, ending TCU’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #221) and starting reign #222. It lasted 21 days and 1 defense, until Texas Tech took it on November 16, 1991.
For Baylor this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before — and it took it back here.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Baylor leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
On October 26, 1991, Baylor defeated TCU 26-9 to claim the College Football Belt. The victory gave Baylor possession of the lineal championship, which had been held by TCU.
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 57570) · This game in the downloadable dataset