Northwestern defends the belt, 14–13, at home over Ohio State.
AP poll, week 5: Ohio State No. 18 at Northwestern No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Northwestern. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Northwestern came in 343 days into reign #77, which began with a win over Notre Dame, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Northwestern went on to defend it 4 more times before Notre Dame took it on November 21, 1936, 378 days after the reign began.
For Ohio State this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the first of 7 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Ohio State leads 6–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Northwestern defended the College Football Belt at home against Ohio State on October 17, 1936, winning 14-13 to retain the title.
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 21150) · This game in the downloadable dataset