Utah takes the belt, 45–31, on the road at Colorado State.
AP poll, week 9: Utah No. 18 at Colorado State No. 12 · No. 1 that week: Texas A&M. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Utah took the belt here, ending Colorado State’s run of 14 days and 1 defense (reign #235) and starting reign #236. It lasted 14 days and 1 defense, until New Mexico took it on November 5, 1994.
For Utah 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 Colorado State and Utah have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
On October 22, 1994, Utah defeated Colorado State 31-45 in Boulder during the regular season. With this road victory, Utah claimed the College Football Belt from Colorado State.
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 59502) · This game in the downloadable dataset