Stanford defends the belt, 63–16, on the road at Washington State.
AP poll, week 8: Stanford No. 6 at Washington State unranked · No. 1 that week: Pittsburgh. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Stanford came in 7 days into reign #142, which began with a win over USC, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Stanford went on to defend it 3 more times before Air Force took it on November 14, 1970, 35 days after the reign began.
For Washington State this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Washington State led the belt series 1–0; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Stanford visited Washington State on October 17, 1970, in a regular season matchup. Stanford won 63-16 and retained the college football belt as the defending champion.
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 42162) · This game in the downloadable dataset