USC defends the belt, 33–0, at home over Washington State.
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC came in 350 days into reign #71, which began with a win over Stanford, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. USC went on to defend it 3 more times before Stanford took it on November 11, 1933, 385 days after the reign began.
For Washington State this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 7 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time USC leads 6–0–1. Every meeting →
About this game
USC defended the belt at home against Washington State on October 7, 1933, winning 33-0 in week 4 of the regular season to retain the championship.
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 18929) · This game in the downloadable dataset