USC defends the belt, 9–6, on the road at Washington.
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC came in 33 days into reign #71, which began with a win over Stanford, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. USC went on to defend it 9 more times before Stanford took it on November 11, 1933, 385 days after the reign began.
For Washington this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 9 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time USC leads 6–3. Every meeting →
About this game
USC visited Washington on November 24, 1932, in a regular season matchup. Washington won 9-6, but USC retained the college football belt as the defending champion.
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 18716) · This game in the downloadable dataset