UCLA defends the belt, 20–17, on the road at Oregon State.
AP poll, week 9: UCLA No. 19 at Oregon State unranked · No. 1 that week: Texas A&M. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
UCLA came in 7 days into reign #232, which began with a win over Washington, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. UCLA went on to defend it 2 more times before Arizona State took it on November 13, 1993, 28 days after the reign began.
For Oregon State this was its 16th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, UCLA led the belt series 2–0; all-time UCLA leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
UCLA traveled to Oregon State on October 23, 1993, as the defending belt holder. Oregon State won the game 20-17, but UCLA retained the belt as the last team to have beaten the previous holder.
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 58860) · This game in the downloadable dataset