Notre Dame defends the belt, 26–0, at home over Indiana.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Notre Dame came in 21 days into reign #55, which began with a win over Penn State, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Notre Dame went on to defend it 2 more times before Carnegie Mellon took it on November 27, 1926, 42 days after the reign began.
For Indiana this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 8 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Indiana and Notre Dame have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Notre Dame defeated Indiana 26-0 on November 6, 1926, in the eighth week of the regular season. As the defending belt holder, Notre Dame retained the championship with the victory.
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 14964) · This game in the downloadable dataset