Ohio State defends the belt, 50–14, at home over Michigan.
AP poll, week 11: Michigan No. 4 at Ohio State No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ohio State came in 42 days into reign #139, which began with a win over Purdue, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Ohio State went on to defend it 9 more times before Michigan took it on November 22, 1969, 406 days after the reign began.
For Michigan this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 3rd of 11 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 1–1; all-time Ohio State leads 8–3. Every meeting →
About this game
Ohio State defeated Michigan 50-14 on November 23, 1968, in a regular season matchup. As the belt's defending holder, Ohio State retained the championship 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 41099) · This game in the downloadable dataset