USC takes the belt, 20–10, on the road at Oklahoma.
AP poll, week 4: USC unranked at Oklahoma No. 13 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC took the belt here, ending Oklahoma’s run of 16 days and 1 defense (reign #224) and starting reign #225. It lasted 14 days and 0 defenses, until Washington took it on October 3, 1992.
For USC this was its 15th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 10 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 0–0–1; all-time USC leads 2–0–1. Every meeting →
About this game
USC visited Oklahoma on September 19, 1992, in a regular season week 4 matchup. Oklahoma won the game 20-10 at home. Despite the loss, USC took the College Football Belt from Oklahoma by virtue of having beaten the belt holder 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 57978) · This game in the downloadable dataset