Washington defends the belt, 37–15, on the road at Stanford.
AP poll, week 8: Washington No. 1 at Stanford unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Washington came in 28 days into reign #187, which began with a win over Michigan, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Washington went on to defend it 3 more times before USC took it on November 10, 1984, 56 days after the reign began.
For Stanford this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 5 times before.
It was the 3rd of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Stanford led the belt series 2–0; all-time Washington leads 3–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Washington visited Stanford on October 13, 1984, in week 8 of the regular season. Stanford won 37-15, but Washington was the belt holder and the final score indicates Washington retained the 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 53017) · This game in the downloadable dataset