USC defends the belt, 18–0, at home over Loyola Marymount.
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC came in 343 days into reign #71, which began with a win over Stanford, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. USC went on to defend it 4 more times before Stanford took it on November 11, 1933, 385 days after the reign began.
For Loyola Marymount this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time Loyola Marymount and USC have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
USC, holding the belt, defeated visiting Loyola Marymount 18-0 on September 30, 1933 in week 3 of the regular season. With the victory, USC retained the college football belt.
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 18856) · This game in the downloadable dataset