USC takes the belt, 28–10, at home over Washington.
AP poll, week 11: Washington unranked at USC No. 5 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC took the belt here, ending Washington’s run of 14 days and 1 defense (reign #166) and starting reign #167. It lasted 735 days and 24 defenses, until Washington took it on November 15, 1980.
For USC this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 6 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 9 belt games between the two; going in, USC led the belt series 1–0; all-time USC leads 6–3. Every meeting →
About this game
On November 11, 1978, USC defeated Washington 28-10 at home in a regular season Week 11 matchup. With the victory, USC took the College Football Belt from Washington.
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 48691) · This game in the downloadable dataset