Washington defends the belt, 19–13, on the road at Oregon.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Washington came in 7 days into reign #190, which began with a win over UCLA, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Washington went on to defend it 1 more time before Oregon State took it on October 19, 1985, 21 days after the reign began.
For Oregon this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Washington led the belt series 1–0; all-time Washington leads 6–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Washington visited Oregon on October 5, 1985, in week 6 of the regular season. Oregon won 19-13, but Washington was the belt defender and retained the championship 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 53612) · This game in the downloadable dataset