Colorado State takes the belt, 27–20, on the road at Air Force.
AP poll, week 4: Colorado State unranked at Air Force No. 21 · 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 Air Force’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #239) and starting reign #240. It lasted 14 days and 0 defenses, until BYU took it on September 30, 1995.
For Colorado State this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
This is the only time Air Force and Colorado State have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Colorado State defeated Air Force 27-20 on September 16, 1995, in a regular season Week 4 matchup. With this victory on the road, Colorado State took possession of the College Football Belt from Air Force.
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 59855) · This game in the downloadable dataset