Arizona State takes the belt, 21–17, at home over Stanford.
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Where this game sits in the lineage
Arizona State took the belt here, ending Stanford’s run of 14 days and 1 defense (reign #176) and starting reign #177. It lasted 35 days and 3 defenses, until Washington took it on November 13, 1982.
For Arizona State this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
This is the only time Arizona State and Stanford have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Stanford visited Arizona State on October 9, 1982, in a regular season matchup. Arizona State defeated Stanford 21-17, taking the College Football Belt from the visiting Cardinal.
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 51545) · This game in the downloadable dataset