Washington defends the belt, 53–7, at home over Miami (OH).
AP poll, week 6: Miami (OH) unranked at Washington No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Washington came in 14 days into reign #187, which began with a win over Michigan, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Washington went on to defend it 5 more times before USC took it on November 10, 1984, 56 days after the reign began.
For Miami (OH) this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 2 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Miami (OH) and Washington have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Washington hosted Miami (OH) on September 29, 1984, in a regular season matchup. Washington won 53-7, successfully defending the college football 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 52905) · This game in the downloadable dataset