Texas Tech takes the belt, 31–24, on the road at Baylor.
AP poll, week 12: Texas Tech unranked at Baylor No. 20 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Texas Tech took the belt here, ending Baylor’s run of 21 days and 1 defense (reign #222) and starting reign #223. It lasted 292 days and 1 defense, until Oklahoma took it on September 3, 1992.
For Texas Tech this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
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
Texas Tech visited Baylor on November 16, 1991, in a regular season week 12 matchup. Baylor led 31-24, but Texas Tech won the game on the field. With this victory, Texas Tech took the College Football Belt from Baylor.
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 57758) · This game in the downloadable dataset