Ohio State defends the belt, 33–27, on the road at Iowa.
AP poll, week 10: Ohio State No. 2 at Iowa unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ohio State came in 35 days into reign #139, which began with a win over Purdue, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Ohio State went on to defend it 10 more times before Michigan took it on November 22, 1969, 406 days after the reign began.
For Iowa this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Ohio State leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Ohio State visited Iowa on November 16, 1968, in a regular season week 10 matchup. Iowa won the game 33-27, but Ohio State held the belt, meaning the final score in the site's records reflects a home team victory that preserved the belt for the away team.
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 41049) · This game in the downloadable dataset