USC takes the belt, 14–7, at home over Arizona.
AP poll, week 12: Arizona No. 9 at USC No. 18 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
USC took the belt here, ending Arizona’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #227) and starting reign #228. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until UCLA took it on November 21, 1992.
For USC this was its 16th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 11 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 3rd of 5 belt games between the two; going in, USC led the belt series 2–0; all-time USC leads 5–0. Every meeting →
About this game
On November 14, 1992, USC defeated visiting Arizona 14-7 in a regular season matchup. With the victory, USC took the College Football Belt from Arizona.
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 58378) · This game in the downloadable dataset