UCLA defends the belt, 40–27, on the road at Washington State.
AP poll, week 11: UCLA No. 12 at Washington State unranked · No. 1 that week: Texas A&M. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
UCLA came in 21 days into reign #232, which began with a win over Washington, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. It was the last defense: Arizona State took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 13, 1993.
For Washington State this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, UCLA led the belt series 1–0; all-time UCLA leads 2–0.
About this game
UCLA visited Washington State on November 6, 1993, in week 11 of the regular season. UCLA won 27-40, defending the belt with a road 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 58961) · This game in the downloadable dataset