Washington defends the belt, 17–10, at home over Oregon.
AP poll, week 9: Oregon unranked at Washington No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Washington came in 35 days into reign #187, which began with a win over Michigan, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Washington went on to defend it 2 more times before USC took it on November 10, 1984, 56 days after the reign began.
For Oregon this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 6 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Washington leads 6–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Washington defended the belt at home against Oregon on October 20, 1984, winning 17-10 in week 9 of the regular season to retain the championship.
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 53073) · This game in the downloadable dataset