USC takes the belt, 16–7, at home over Washington.
AP poll, week 12: Washington No. 8 at USC No. 7 · No. 1 that week: Texas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC took the belt here, ending Washington’s run of 56 days and 7 defenses (reign #187) and starting reign #188. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until UCLA took it on November 17, 1984.
For USC this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 7 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 5th of 9 belt games between the two; going in, USC led the belt series 3–1; all-time USC leads 6–3. Every meeting →
About this game
Washington visited USC on November 10, 1984, in a regular season matchup where the Trojans defeated the Huskies 16-7. With this victory, USC claimed the College Football Belt from Washington.
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 53219) · This game in the downloadable dataset