Ohio State takes the belt, 13–0, at home over Purdue.
AP poll, week 5: Purdue No. 1 at Ohio State No. 4 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ohio State took the belt here, ending Purdue’s run of 14 days and 1 defense (reign #138) and starting reign #139. It lasted 406 days and 15 defenses, until Michigan took it on November 22, 1969.
For Ohio State this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Ohio State led the belt series 1–0; all-time Ohio State leads 4–1. Every meeting →
About this game
On October 12, 1968, Ohio State defeated visiting Purdue 13-0 in a regular season matchup. With this victory, Ohio State took the College Football Belt from Purdue.
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 40751) · This game in the downloadable dataset