Washington takes the belt, 21–14, at home over UCLA.
AP poll, week 5: UCLA No. 13 at Washington unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Washington took the belt here, ending UCLA’s run of 315 days and 4 defenses (reign #189) and starting reign #190. It lasted 21 days and 2 defenses, until Oregon State took it on October 19, 1985.
For Washington this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 5 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, UCLA led the belt series 1–0; all-time UCLA leads 3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
On September 28, 1985, Washington defeated UCLA 21-14 in a regular season matchup, taking the College Football Belt from the Bruins with the victory at home.
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 53559) · This game in the downloadable dataset