Tulsa takes the belt, 27–20, at home over Iowa.
AP poll, week 5: Iowa No. 19 at Tulsa unranked · No. 1 that week: North Carolina. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Tulsa took the belt here, ending Iowa’s run of 14 days and 1 defense (reign #244) and starting reign #245. It lasted 28 days and 2 defenses, until BYU took it on October 19, 1996.
For Tulsa this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time Iowa and Tulsa have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Iowa visited Tulsa on September 21, 1996, in week 5 of the regular season. Tulsa won 27-20, taking the College Football Belt from Iowa on the field.
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 60568) · This game in the downloadable dataset