California takes the belt, 27–25, on the road at UCLA.
Where this game sits in the lineage
California took the belt here, ending UCLA’s run of 287 days and 0 defenses (reign #229) and starting reign #230. It lasted 35 days and 4 defenses, until Washington took it on October 9, 1993.
For California this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 1–1; all-time California leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
California defeated UCLA 27-25 on September 4, 1993, in a regular season week 2 matchup in Los Angeles. With the victory, California took the College Football Belt from UCLA.
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 58485) · This game in the downloadable dataset