Washington defends the belt, 19–7, on the road at Oregon State.
AP poll, week 7: Washington No. 2 at Oregon State unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Washington came in 21 days into reign #187, which began with a win over Michigan, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Washington went on to defend it 4 more times before USC took it on November 10, 1984, 56 days after the reign began.
For Oregon State this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Washington leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Washington visited Oregon State on October 6, 1984, in week 7 of the regular season. Oregon State won 19-7, but Washington was defending the belt and retained it with 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 52964) · This game in the downloadable dataset