USC defends the belt, 13–0, at home over Notre Dame.
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC came in 49 days into reign #71, which began with a win over Stanford, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. USC went on to defend it 8 more times before Stanford took it on November 11, 1933, 385 days after the reign began.
For Notre Dame this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the first of 9 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time USC leads 6–2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
On December 10, 1932, USC defeated Notre Dame 13-0 at home in a regular season matchup. As 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 18753) · This game in the downloadable dataset