USC defends the belt, 51–0, at home over TCU.
AP poll, week 4: TCU unranked at USC No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC came in 308 days into reign #162, which began with a win over UCLA, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. USC went on to defend it 1 more time before Alabama took it on October 8, 1977, 322 days after the reign began.
For TCU this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time TCU and USC have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
USC defended the belt on September 24, 1977, defeating visiting TCU 51-0 in week 4 of the regular season.
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 47382) · This game in the downloadable dataset