Colorado State takes the belt, 21–16, on the road at Arizona.
AP poll, week 7: Colorado State No. 23 at Arizona No. 6 · No. 1 that week: Texas A&M. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Colorado State took the belt here, ending Arizona’s run of 316 days and 5 defenses (reign #234) and starting reign #235. It lasted 14 days and 1 defense, until Utah took it on October 22, 1994.
For Colorado State this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time Arizona and Colorado State have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Colorado State visited Arizona on October 8, 1994, and defeated the home team 21-16 in a regular season matchup. With the victory, Colorado State claimed the College Football Belt from Arizona.
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 59371) · This game in the downloadable dataset