USC defends the belt, 20–6, at home over Oregon.
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC came in 7 days into reign #194, which began with a win over UCLA, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. It was the last defense: Alabama took the belt in the very next belt game, on December 28, 1985.
For Oregon this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 5th of 6 belt games between the two; going in, USC led the belt series 3–0–1; all-time USC leads 5–0–1. Every meeting →
About this game
On November 30, 1985, USC defeated Oregon 20-6 at home in a regular season matchup. The defending belt holder successfully retained the title 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 53986) · This game in the downloadable dataset