USC defends the belt, 55–13, at home over Washington State.
AP poll, week 9: Washington State unranked at USC No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC came in 667 days into reign #258, which began with a win over Michigan, with 20 defenses already behind it; this was its 21st defense. USC went on to defend it 4 more times before Texas took it on January 4, 2006, 734 days after the reign began.
For Washington State this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 7th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, USC led the belt series 5–0–1; all-time USC leads 6–0–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Washington State visited USC on October 29, 2005, in a week 9 regular season matchup. USC won 55-13, keeping hold of the college football belt as the defending champion.
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 Box score at ESPN · Game record: College Football Data (id 253020030) · This game in the downloadable dataset