Ohio State defends the belt, 34–7, on the road at Minnesota.
AP poll, week 6: Ohio State No. 1 at Minnesota unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ohio State came in 371 days into reign #139, which began with a win over Purdue, with 10 defenses already behind it; this was its 11th defense. Ohio State went on to defend it 4 more times before Michigan took it on November 22, 1969, 406 days after the reign began.
For Minnesota this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 4 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Ohio State leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Ohio State traveled to Minnesota on October 18, 1969, as the belt holder. Minnesota won the game 34-7, but Ohio State retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 41458) · This game in the downloadable dataset