Arizona State defends the belt, 35–24, on the road at Oregon.
AP poll, week 10: Arizona State unranked at Oregon No. 10 · No. 1 that week: Texas A&M. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Arizona State came in 14 days into reign #242, which began with a win over BYU, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Arizona State went on to defend it 2 more times before Arizona took it on November 24, 1995, 41 days after the reign began.
For Oregon this was its 15th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Arizona State and Oregon have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Arizona State visited Oregon on October 28, 1995, in a week 10 regular season matchup. Oregon won the game 35-24, but Arizona State held the belt with a 24-35 loss -- meaning the final score recorded has Oregon as the winner by the listed points, yet Arizona State retained the belt, indicating Arizona State was the belt-holder entering the game.
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 60140) · This game in the downloadable dataset