USC retains the belt after a 7–7 tie with Oregon.
AP poll, week 8: Oregon unranked at USC No. 8 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC came in 707 days into reign #167, which began with a win over Washington, with 21 defenses already behind it; this was its 22nd defense. USC went on to defend it 2 more times before Washington took it on November 15, 1980, 735 days after the reign began.
For Oregon this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 4th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, USC led the belt series 3–0; all-time USC leads 5–0–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Oregon visited USC on October 18, 1980, in week 8 of the regular season. The game ended in a 7-7 tie. Under the site's tie rule, USC retained the belt as the holder.
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 50097) · This game in the downloadable dataset