Stanford takes the belt, 24–14, at home over USC.
AP poll, week 7: USC No. 10 at Stanford No. 8 · No. 1 that week: Pittsburgh. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Stanford took the belt here, ending USC’s run of 282 days and 4 defenses (reign #141) and starting reign #142. It lasted 35 days and 4 defenses, until Air Force took it on November 14, 1970.
For Stanford this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 4th of 8 belt games between the two; going in, Stanford led the belt series 2–1; all-time USC leads 4–3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Stanford defeated USC 24-14 on October 10, 1970 in Palo Alto. With this victory, Stanford took possession of the College Football Belt from USC.
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 42101) · This game in the downloadable dataset