Washington takes the belt, 17–13, on the road at Arizona State.
AP poll, week 11: Washington No. 7 at Arizona State No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Washington took the belt here, ending Arizona State’s run of 35 days and 3 defenses (reign #177) and starting reign #178. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until Washington State took it on November 20, 1982.
For Washington this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Washington led the belt series 1–0; all-time Washington leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Washington visited Arizona State on November 13, 1982, in a regular season game, defeating the belt-holder 17-13. With the 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 51873) · This game in the downloadable dataset