Ohio State defends the belt, 62–0, at home over TCU.
AP poll, week 3: TCU unranked at Ohio State No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ohio State came in 350 days into reign #139, which began with a win over Purdue, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Ohio State went on to defend it 7 more times before Michigan took it on November 22, 1969, 406 days after the reign began.
For TCU this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Ohio State and TCU have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Ohio State defeated TCU 62-0 on September 27, 1969, in the third week of the regular season. 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 41271) · This game in the downloadable dataset