USC defends the belt, 21–7, on the road at Oregon State.
AP poll, week 6: USC No. 4 at Oregon State unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC came in 278 days into reign #153, which began with a win over Ohio State, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. USC went on to defend it 2 more times before Notre Dame took it on October 27, 1973, 299 days after the reign began.
For Oregon State this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 4th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, USC led the belt series 1–0–2; all-time USC leads 5–0–2. Every meeting →
About this game
USC visited Oregon State on October 6, 1973, in week 6 of the regular season. Oregon State won 21-7. USC was the belt holder entering the game and retained the belt 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 44279) · This game in the downloadable dataset