USC defends the belt, 27–25, at home over Notre Dame.
AP poll, week 13: Notre Dame No. 10 at USC No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC came in 14 days into reign #167, which began with a win over Washington, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. USC went on to defend it 22 more times before Washington took it on November 15, 1980, 735 days after the reign began.
For Notre Dame this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 6 times before.
It was the 5th of 9 belt games between the two; going in, USC led the belt series 2–1–1; all-time USC leads 6–2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
USC defended the belt on November 25, 1978, defeating visiting Notre Dame 27-25 in week 13 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 48797) · This game in the downloadable dataset