Stanford defends the belt, 29–22, at home over Washington.
AP poll, week 11: Washington unranked at Stanford No. 11 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Stanford came in 28 days into reign #142, which began with a win over USC, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. It was the last defense: Air Force took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 14, 1970.
For Washington this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Stanford led the belt series 1–0; all-time Washington leads 3–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Stanford hosted Washington on November 7, 1970, in week 11 of the regular season. Stanford won 29-22 and retained the College Football Belt.
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 42347) · This game in the downloadable dataset