Ohio State takes the belt, 13–3, on the road at Michigan.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ohio State took the belt here, ending Michigan’s run of 343 days and 4 defenses (reign #40) and starting reign #41. It lasted 28 days and 2 defenses, until Illinois took it on November 22, 1919.
For Ohio State this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the 2nd of 11 belt games between the two; going in, Michigan led the belt series 1–0; all-time Ohio State leads 8–3. Every meeting →
About this game
Ohio State traveled to Michigan on October 25, 1919, and defeated the host Wolverines 13-3 in a regular season matchup. With the victory, Ohio State claimed the College Football Belt from Michigan.
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 10782) · This game in the downloadable dataset