USC defends the belt, 13–0, at home over Oregon.
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC came in 292 days into reign #84, which began with a win over Tennessee, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. It was the last defense: Stanford took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 26, 1940.
For Oregon this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, USC led the belt series 1–0; all-time USC leads 5–0–1. Every meeting →
About this game
On October 19, 1940, USC defeated visiting Oregon 13-0 in a regular season matchup. As the belt holder, USC successfully defended its title 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 23857) · This game in the downloadable dataset