Ohio State defends the belt, 43–8, on the road at Wisconsin.
AP poll, week 9: Ohio State No. 2 at Wisconsin unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ohio State came in 28 days into reign #139, which began with a win over Purdue, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Ohio State went on to defend it 11 more times before Michigan took it on November 22, 1969, 406 days after the reign began.
For Wisconsin this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Ohio State led the belt series 1–0; all-time Ohio State leads 6–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Ohio State visited Wisconsin on November 9, 1968, in a regular season week 9 matchup. Wisconsin won 43-8. As the belt's defending champion, Ohio State retained the belt with the victory.
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 40985) · This game in the downloadable dataset