USC retains the belt after a 21–21 tie with Nebraska.
AP poll, week 4: USC No. 5 at Nebraska No. 6 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC came in 261 days into reign #141, which began with a win over Michigan, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. USC went on to defend it 2 more times before Stanford took it on October 10, 1970, 282 days after the reign began.
For Nebraska this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
This is the only time Nebraska and USC have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
USC visited Nebraska on September 19, 1970, and the teams played to a 21-21 tie. Under the belt's tie rules, the holder retains the belt on a draw, so USC successfully defended its title.
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 41889) · This game in the downloadable dataset