LSU takes the belt, 40–14, at home over Washington.
AP poll, week 5: Washington No. 18 at LSU No. 16 · No. 1 that week: Texas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
LSU took the belt here, ending Washington’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #181) and starting reign #182. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until Florida took it on October 1, 1983.
For LSU this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before — and it took it back here.
This is the only time LSU and Washington have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Washington visited LSU on September 24, 1983, in week 5 of the regular season. LSU won 40-14, taking the College Football Belt from Washington on the strength of the victory.
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 52152) · This game in the downloadable dataset