New Mexico takes the belt, 23–21, at home over Utah.
AP poll, week 11: Utah No. 9 at New Mexico unranked · No. 1 that week: Texas A&M. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
New Mexico took the belt here, ending Utah’s run of 14 days and 1 defense (reign #236) and starting reign #237. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until Wyoming took it on November 12, 1994.
For New Mexico this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time New Mexico and Utah have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
On November 5, 1994, New Mexico defeated Utah 23-21 to claim the College Football Belt. With this victory on the field, New Mexico took the belt from Utah.
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 59585) · This game in the downloadable dataset