UCLA takes the belt, 29–10, at home over USC.
AP poll, week 13: USC No. 14 at UCLA No. 19 · No. 1 that week: Texas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
UCLA took the belt here, ending USC’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #188) and starting reign #189. It lasted 315 days and 4 defenses, until Washington took it on September 28, 1985.
For UCLA this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 4th of 9 belt games between the two; going in, USC led the belt series 3–0; all-time USC leads 7–2. Every meeting →
About this game
UCLA defeated USC 29-10 on November 17, 1984 in a regular season matchup. With this victory, UCLA took the College Football Belt from USC.
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 53282) · This game in the downloadable dataset