Arizona takes the belt, 34–20, on the road at Arizona State.
AP poll, week 14: Arizona No. 19 at Arizona State unranked · No. 1 that week: Texas A&M. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Arizona took the belt here, ending Arizona State’s run of 13 days and 0 defenses (reign #233) and starting reign #234. It lasted 316 days and 5 defenses, until Colorado State took it on October 8, 1994.
For Arizona this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times 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 Arizona leads 2–0.
About this game
Arizona visited Arizona State on November 26, 1993, in week 14 of the regular season. Arizona won 20-34, taking the College Football Belt from Arizona State by virtue of the victory on the field.
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 59065) · This game in the downloadable dataset