Syracuse takes the belt, 25–7, at home over Penn State.
AP poll, week 9: Penn State unranked at Syracuse No. 15 · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Syracuse took the belt here, ending Penn State’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #103) and starting reign #104. It lasted 54 days and 2 defenses, until Alabama took it on January 1, 1953.
For Syracuse this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Syracuse led the belt series 1–0; all-time Syracuse leads 2–0.
About this game
Penn State traveled to Syracuse on November 8, 1952, where Syracuse defeated the visiting Nittany Lions 25-7 in a regular season matchup. With this victory, Syracuse claimed the College Football Belt from Penn State.
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 31255) · This game in the downloadable dataset