Utah defends the belt, 52–7, at home over UTEP.
AP poll, week 10: UTEP unranked at Utah No. 12 · No. 1 that week: Texas A&M. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Utah came in 7 days into reign #236, which began with a win over Colorado State, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. It was the last defense: New Mexico took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 5, 1994.
For UTEP this was its 3rd 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 UTEP and Utah have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Utah defeated UTEP 52-7 on October 29, 1994 in regular season week 10 play. As the belt's defending holder, Utah retained the championship 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 59548) · This game in the downloadable dataset