Ohio State defends the belt, 41–14, on the road at Washington.
AP poll, week 4: Ohio State No. 1 at Washington unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ohio State came in 357 days into reign #139, which began with a win over Purdue, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Ohio State went on to defend it 6 more times before Michigan took it on November 22, 1969, 406 days after the reign began.
For Washington this was its 3rd 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 Washington on October 4, 1969, in a regular season week 4 matchup. Washington won 41-14. Ohio State was the belt holder entering the game and 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 41336) · This game in the downloadable dataset