Oklahoma defends the belt, 61–0, at home over Arkansas State.
AP poll, week 3: Arkansas State unranked at Oklahoma No. 13 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Oklahoma came in 9 days into reign #224, which began with a win over Texas Tech, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. It was the last defense: USC took the belt in the very next belt game, on September 19, 1992.
For Arkansas State this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time Arkansas State and Oklahoma have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
On September 12, 1992, Oklahoma defeated Arkansas State 61-0 in a regular season Week 3 matchup. As the belt's defending holder, Oklahoma retained the championship with the victory.
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 57921) · This game in the downloadable dataset