USC defends the belt, 45–13, at home over Oregon State.
AP poll, week 6: Oregon State unranked at USC No. 11 · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC came in 275 days into reign #141, which began with a win over Michigan, 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 10, 1970.
For Oregon State this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 3rd of 7 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 0–0–2; all-time USC leads 5–0–2. Every meeting →
About this game
On October 3, 1970, USC defended the College Football Belt at home against Oregon State, winning 45-13. The victory allowed USC to retain the belt.
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 42032) · This game in the downloadable dataset