Washington defends the belt, 24–3, on the road at Oregon.
AP poll, week 8: Washington No. 1 at Oregon unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Washington came in 14 days into reign #226, which began with a win over USC, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Washington went on to defend it 2 more times before Arizona took it on November 7, 1992, 35 days after the reign began.
For Oregon this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
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 traveled to Oregon on October 17, 1992, as the belt holder in week 8 of the regular season. Oregon won the game 24-3, but Washington retained the belt as the defending champion since the belt only changes hands when the challenger defeats the holder.
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 58189) · This game in the downloadable dataset