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Overtime
1 belt games since 2025 have gone past regulation, and 1 of them moved the belt. The ones that went longest, the holder’s record when the game won’t end, and every overtime title change.
1belt games have gone to overtime since 2025
No. 1 1 belt games have gone to overtime
Since box scores begin in the record (2025 onward, 13 belt games with a period-by-period line), 1 belt games needed overtime. The holder won 0 of them and lost 1, so overtime has been crueler to the holder than the 1 coin flips it looks like.
Every one of them: California 29–26 Louisville (2025, 1OT).
No. 2 1 title change in overtime
The belt has changed hands in overtime 1 time: California 29–26 Louisville (2025). The most recent, November 8, 2025, put the belt in California’s hands after 1 extra period.
No. 3 The longest: 1 overtime
California 29–26 Louisville, November 8, 2025 — 1 extra period, and the belt changed hands at the end of it.
What it means
Overtime is the belt at its most literal: the holder and the challenger, alternating possessions from the 25, until one of them doesn’t score. Games before the 1996 overtime rule ended in ties, which the belt gives to the holder — so every one of these is a title that, a generation earlier, would simply have stayed put.
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