USC defends the belt, 46–35, at home over Washington State.
AP poll, week 7: Washington State unranked at USC No. 6 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC came in 285 days into reign #153, which began with a win over Ohio State, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. USC went on to defend it 1 more time before Notre Dame took it on October 27, 1973, 299 days after the reign began.
For Washington 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, USC led the belt series 1–0–1; all-time USC leads 6–0–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Washington State visited USC on October 13, 1973, in week 7 of the regular season. USC won 46-35, successfully defending the belt against the visiting Cougars.
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 44351) · This game in the downloadable dataset