USC defends the belt, 27–7, at home over California.
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC came in 14 days into reign #71, which began with a win over Stanford, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. USC went on to defend it 11 more times before Stanford took it on November 11, 1933, 385 days after the reign began.
For California this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 6 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time USC leads 6–0. Every meeting →
About this game
On November 5, 1932, USC defeated visiting California 27-7 in a regular season matchup. The defending belt holder USC retained the belt 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 18572) · This game in the downloadable dataset