UCLA takes the belt, 39–25, at home over Washington.
AP poll, week 8: Washington No. 12 at UCLA No. 22 · No. 1 that week: Texas A&M. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
UCLA took the belt here, ending Washington’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #231) and starting reign #232. It lasted 28 days and 3 defenses, until Arizona State took it on November 13, 1993.
For UCLA this was its 15th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 8 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 4th of 4 belt games between the two; going in, UCLA led the belt series 2–1; all-time UCLA leads 3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Washington visited UCLA on October 16, 1993, in a regular season week 8 matchup. UCLA won 39-25, taking the College Football Belt from Washington 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 58817) · This game in the downloadable dataset