Arizona State defends the belt, 30–16, at home over Oregon State.
AP poll, week 10: Oregon State unranked at Arizona State No. 4 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Arizona State came in 28 days into reign #177, which began with a win over Stanford, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. It was the last defense: Washington took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 13, 1982.
For Oregon State this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time Arizona State and Oregon State have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Arizona State hosted Oregon State on November 6, 1982, in a regular season matchup where the Sun Devils defended their hold on the College Football Belt. Arizona State won 30-16 to retain the 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 51768) · This game in the downloadable dataset