USC defends the belt, 31–10, at home over Oregon.
AP poll, week 8: Oregon 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 292 days into reign #153, which began with a win over Ohio State, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. It was the last defense: Notre Dame took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 27, 1973.
For Oregon this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 3rd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, USC led the belt series 2–0; all-time USC leads 5–0–1. Every meeting →
About this game
On October 20, 1973, USC defeated Oregon 31-10 at home in a regular season matchup. The defending belt holder USC kept 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 44410) · This game in the downloadable dataset