USC defends the belt, 35–0, at a neutral site over Pittsburgh.
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC came in 72 days into reign #71, which began with a win over Stanford, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. USC went on to defend it 7 more times before Stanford took it on November 11, 1933, 385 days after the reign began.
For Pittsburgh this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Pittsburgh and USC have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
USC defeated Pittsburgh 35-0 on January 2, 1933, in a postseason matchup played at a neutral site. As the defending belt holder, USC successfully retained the championship 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 18758) · This game in the downloadable dataset