Washington defends the belt, 28–12, at home over Arizona.
AP poll, week 10: Arizona unranked at Washington No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Texas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Washington came in 42 days into reign #187, which began with a win over Michigan, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Washington went on to defend it 1 more time before USC took it on November 10, 1984, 56 days after the reign began.
For Arizona this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Washington led the belt series 1–0; all-time Washington leads 4–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Washington defended the belt on October 27, 1984, defeating visiting Arizona 28-12 in week 10 of the regular season.
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 53122) · This game in the downloadable dataset