USC takes the belt, 17–13, at home over UCLA.
AP poll, week 13: UCLA No. 8 at USC unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC took the belt here, ending UCLA’s run of 14 days and 1 defense (reign #193) and starting reign #194. It lasted 35 days and 1 defense, until Alabama took it on December 28, 1985.
For USC this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 8 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 7–2. Every meeting →
About this game
USC defeated UCLA 17-13 on November 23, 1985 in the regular season finale. With the victory, USC took the College Football Belt from UCLA on the field.
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 53964) · This game in the downloadable dataset