Washington defends the belt, 54–10, at home over Arizona.
AP poll, week 11: Arizona unranked at Washington No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Washington came in 7 days into reign #214, which began with a win over California, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. It was the last defense: UCLA took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 10, 1990.
For Arizona this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 3rd of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Washington led the belt series 2–0; all-time Washington leads 4–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Washington defended the College Football Belt on November 3, 1990, defeating visiting Arizona 54-10 in regular season week 11 play. The victory allowed Washington to retain the belt.
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 57044) · This game in the downloadable dataset