UCLA defends the belt, 30–21, on the road at Washington.
AP poll, week 9: UCLA No. 3 at Washington unranked · No. 1 that week: Pittsburgh. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
UCLA came in 303 days into reign #161, which began with a win over Ohio State, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. UCLA went on to defend it 2 more times before USC took it on November 20, 1976, 324 days after the reign began.
For Washington this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 4 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time UCLA leads 3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
UCLA traveled to Washington on October 30, 1976, as the defending belt holder. The Huskies defeated UCLA 30-21, but UCLA retained the belt as the home team's victory did not result in a change of possession under lineal rules.
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 46904) · This game in the downloadable dataset