Notre Dame takes the belt, 45–21, at home over Oklahoma.
AP poll, week 2: Oklahoma No. 5 at Notre Dame No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Notre Dame took the belt here, ending Oklahoma’s run of 264 days and 0 defenses (reign #136) and starting reign #137. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until Purdue took it on September 28, 1968.
For Notre Dame this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before — and it took it back here.
This is the only time Notre Dame and Oklahoma have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Notre Dame defeated Oklahoma 45-21 on September 21, 1968 in week 2 of the regular season. With this home victory, Notre Dame took the College Football Belt from Oklahoma.
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 40567) · This game in the downloadable dataset