Colorado State defends the belt, 47–9, at home over UTEP.
AP poll, week 8: UTEP unranked at Colorado State No. 13 · No. 1 that week: Texas A&M. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Colorado State came in 7 days into reign #235, which began with a win over Arizona, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. It was the last defense: Utah took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 22, 1994.
For UTEP this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 5 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Colorado State and UTEP have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Colorado State defeated UTEP 47-9 on October 15, 1994, in week 8 of the regular season. As the defending belt holder, Colorado State retained the belt 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 59419) · This game in the downloadable dataset