Washington takes the belt, 46–7, at home over California.
AP poll, week 10: California unranked at Washington No. 7 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Washington took the belt here, ending California’s run of 28 days and 3 defenses (reign #213) and starting reign #214. It lasted 14 days and 1 defense, until UCLA took it on November 10, 1990.
For Washington this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 6 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 3rd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Washington led the belt series 2–0; all-time Washington leads 6–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Washington defeated California 46-7 on October 27, 1990 in regular season week 10 play. With this victory on the field, Washington took the College Football Belt from California.
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 56991) · This game in the downloadable dataset