Purdue takes the belt, 37–22, on the road at Notre Dame.
AP poll, week 3: Purdue No. 1 at Notre Dame No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Purdue took the belt here, ending Notre Dame’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #137) and starting reign #138. It lasted 14 days and 1 defense, until Ohio State took it on October 12, 1968.
For Purdue this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Notre Dame led the belt series 1–0; all-time it is 2–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Purdue visited Notre Dame on September 28, 1968, in week 3 of the regular season. Notre Dame lost 22-37. With the victory, Purdue took possession of the college football belt.
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 40629) · This game in the downloadable dataset