Oklahoma takes the belt, 34–9, on the road at Texas Tech.
AP poll, week 2: Oklahoma No. 15 at Texas Tech unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Oklahoma took the belt here, ending Texas Tech’s run of 292 days and 1 defense (reign #223) and starting reign #224. It lasted 16 days and 1 defense, until USC took it on September 19, 1992.
For Oklahoma this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Oklahoma leads 2–0.
About this game
Oklahoma traveled to Texas Tech on September 3, 1992, in week 2 of the regular season. Texas Tech won the game 34-9. With this victory, Texas Tech took the College Football Belt from Oklahoma.
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 57838) · This game in the downloadable dataset