Ohio State defends the belt, 54–21, at home over Michigan State.
AP poll, week 5: Michigan State 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 364 days into reign #139, which began with a win over Purdue, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. Ohio State went on to defend it 5 more times before Michigan took it on November 22, 1969, 406 days after the reign began.
For Michigan State this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 6 belt games between the two; going in, Ohio State led the belt series 1–0; all-time Ohio State leads 6–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Ohio State defeated visiting Michigan State 54-21 on October 11, 1969 in week 5 of the regular season. The defending belt holder Ohio State kept 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 41396) · This game in the downloadable dataset