UCLA defends the belt, 62–3, at home over Washington State.
AP poll, week 7: Washington State unranked at UCLA No. 4 · No. 1 that week: Pittsburgh. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
UCLA came in 289 days into reign #161, which began with a win over Ohio State, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. UCLA went on to defend it 4 more times before USC took it on November 20, 1976, 324 days after the reign began.
For Washington State this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time UCLA leads 2–0.
About this game
UCLA defended the belt against Washington State on October 16, 1976, winning 62-3 at home in week 7 of the regular season.
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 46768) · This game in the downloadable dataset