USC retains the belt after a 0–0 tie with Oregon State.
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC came in 364 days into reign #71, which began with a win over Stanford, with 10 defenses already behind it; this was its 11th defense. USC went on to defend it 1 more time before Stanford took it on November 11, 1933, 385 days after the reign began.
For Oregon State this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the first of 7 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time USC leads 5–0–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Oregon State visited USC on October 21, 1933, in a week 6 regular season matchup that ended in a 0-0 tie. Under the site's tie rule, USC retained the belt as the holder.
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 19068) · This game in the downloadable dataset