Arizona takes the belt, 31–28, on the road at Arizona State.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Arizona took the belt here, ending Arizona State’s run of 41 days and 3 defenses (reign #242) and starting reign #243. It lasted 288 days and 1 defense, until Iowa took it on September 7, 1996.
For Arizona this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Arizona led the belt series 1–0; all-time Arizona leads 2–0.
About this game
Arizona traveled to Arizona State on November 24, 1995, and defeated the home team 28-31 in week 14 of the regular season. With this victory, Arizona took the College Football Belt from Arizona State.
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 60337) · This game in the downloadable dataset