Washington takes the belt, 17–10, at home over USC.
AP poll, week 6: USC No. 20 at Washington No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Washington took the belt here, ending USC’s run of 14 days and 0 defenses (reign #225) and starting reign #226. It lasted 35 days and 4 defenses, until Arizona took it on November 7, 1992.
For Washington this was its 14th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 7 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 6–3. Every meeting →
About this game
Washington defeated USC 17-10 on October 3, 1992, taking the College Football Belt from the Trojans in this regular season matchup. The victory gave Washington possession of the lineal championship 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 58090) · This game in the downloadable dataset