USC defends the belt, 34–7, at home over Arizona.
AP poll, week 10: Arizona unranked at USC No. 4 · No. 1 that week: Pittsburgh. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC came in 357 days into reign #167, which began with a win over Washington, with 12 defenses already behind it; this was its 13th defense. USC went on to defend it 11 more times before Washington took it on November 15, 1980, 735 days after the reign began.
For Arizona this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 5 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time USC leads 5–0. Every meeting →
About this game
USC hosted Arizona on November 3, 1979, in week 10 of the regular season. USC won 34-7 and retained the College Football Belt.
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 49444) · This game in the downloadable dataset