Arizona State defends the belt, 17–10, at home over USC.
AP poll, week 9: USC No. 12 at Arizona State No. 7 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Arizona State came in 21 days into reign #177, which began with a win over Stanford, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Arizona State went on to defend it 1 more time before Washington took it on November 13, 1982, 35 days after the reign began.
For USC this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 7 times before.
It was the 3rd of 5 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 1–1; all-time USC leads 3–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Arizona State defeated USC 17-10 on October 30, 1982, in the ninth week of the regular season. The Sun Devils were defending the College Football Belt and retained it with the victory.
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 51712) · This game in the downloadable dataset