USC defends the belt, 49–14, at home over UCLA.
AP poll, week 13: UCLA 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 378 days into reign #167, which began with a win over Washington, with 14 defenses already behind it; this was its 15th defense. USC went on to defend it 9 more times before Washington took it on November 15, 1980, 735 days after the reign began.
For UCLA this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
It was the 3rd of 9 belt games between the two; going in, USC led the belt series 2–0; all-time USC leads 7–2. Every meeting →
About this game
USC defended the belt against UCLA on November 24, 1979, winning 49-14 at home 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 49625) · This game in the downloadable dataset