Belt on any date
Who had the belt on…
Pick a day — your birthday, the night you graduated, the first game you remember — and see who was holding the College Football Belt, how long they had held it, and what happened next. Every one of the 57,295 days since Rutgers beat Princeton on November 6, 1869 has an answer.
There was no belt yet. It was established on November 6, 1869, when Rutgers beat Princeton 6–4 in the first college football game — pick that day or any day since.
How it is answered: the belt is held from the day it is won until the day it is lost, so the holder on any date is simply the
program that won it most recently before then — the same chain of custody as the full history, with
every game linked. Notre Dame has held it since November 29, 2025.