Notre Dame takes the belt, 10–6, on the road at USC.
AP poll, week 14: Notre Dame No. 7 at USC No. 21 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Notre Dame took the belt here, ending USC’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #216) and starting reign #217. It lasted 38 days and 0 defenses, until Colorado took it on January 1, 1991.
For Notre Dame this was its 17th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 7 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 7th of 9 belt games between the two; going in, USC led the belt series 4–1–1; all-time USC leads 6–2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Notre Dame visited USC on November 24, 1990, in a regular season matchup. Notre Dame won 10-6, taking 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 57159) · This game in the downloadable dataset