Washington State takes the belt, 24–20, at home over Washington.
AP poll, week 12: Washington No. 5 at Washington State unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Washington State took the belt here, ending Washington’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #178) and starting reign #179. It lasted 294 days and 1 defense, until Michigan took it on September 10, 1983.
For Washington State this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Washington led the belt series 1–0; all-time Washington leads 3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Washington State defeated Washington 24-20 on November 20, 1982 in a regular season matchup. With the victory, Washington State took possession of the College Football Belt from Washington.
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 51922) · This game in the downloadable dataset