Iowa takes the belt, 21–20, at home over Arizona.
AP poll, week 3: Arizona unranked at Iowa No. 22 · No. 1 that week: North Carolina. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Iowa took the belt here, ending Arizona’s run of 288 days and 1 defense (reign #243) and starting reign #244. It lasted 14 days and 1 defense, until Tulsa took it on September 21, 1996.
For Iowa this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
This is the only time Arizona and Iowa have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Arizona visited Iowa on September 7, 1996, in a Week 3 regular season matchup. Iowa won 21-20, taking the College Football Belt from Arizona with the victory.
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 60439) · This game in the downloadable dataset