Washington takes the belt, 25–24, at home over Michigan.
AP poll, week 4: Michigan No. 17 at Washington No. 9 · No. 1 that week: Pittsburgh. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Washington took the belt here, ending Michigan’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #180) and starting reign #181. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until LSU took it on September 24, 1983.
For Washington this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Michigan led the belt series 1–0; all-time it is 2–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Washington defeated Michigan 25-24 on September 17, 1983 in week 4 of the regular season. By winning this game on the field, Washington took the College Football Belt from Michigan.
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 52123) · This game in the downloadable dataset