USC takes the belt, 45–42, on the road at UCLA.
AP poll, week 13: USC No. 18 at UCLA 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 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #215) and starting reign #216. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until Notre Dame took it on November 24, 1990.
For USC this was its 14th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 9 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 6th of 9 belt games between the two; going in, USC led the belt series 4–1; all-time USC leads 7–2. Every meeting →
About this game
USC visited UCLA on November 17, 1990, in a regular season matchup. UCLA won the game 45-42, but the final score listed here indicates USC took the belt from UCLA by winning 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 57132) · This game in the downloadable dataset