Washington takes the belt, 41–7, at home over Arizona State.
AP poll, week 9: Arizona State unranked at Washington No. 20 · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Washington took the belt here, ending Arizona State’s run of 14 days and 0 defenses (reign #165) and starting reign #166. It lasted 14 days and 1 defense, until USC took it on November 11, 1978.
For Washington this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Washington leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Washington defeated Arizona State 41-7 on October 28, 1978, in Seattle. With this victory, Washington took the College Football Belt from Arizona State.
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 48560) · This game in the downloadable dataset