BYU takes the belt, 55–30, on the road at Tulsa.
AP poll, week 9: BYU No. 18 at Tulsa unranked · No. 1 that week: North Carolina. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
BYU took the belt here, ending Tulsa’s run of 28 days and 2 defenses (reign #245) and starting reign #246. It lasted 322 days and 7 defenses, until Washington took it on September 6, 1997.
For BYU this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
This is the only time BYU and Tulsa have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
BYU traveled to face Tulsa on October 19, 1996, in a regular season week 9 matchup. Tulsa won the game 55-30, but the result meant BYU took the belt from Tulsa by winning 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 60728) · This game in the downloadable dataset