Arizona State defends the belt, 38–29, on the road at California.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Arizona State came in 28 days into reign #242, which began with a win over BYU, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. It was the last defense: Arizona took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 24, 1995.
For California this was its 14th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, California led the belt series 1–0; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Arizona State traveled to California on November 11, 1995, in a regular season week 12 matchup. Arizona State won 38-29 and retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 60238) · This game in the downloadable dataset