Ohio State defends the belt, 62–7, at home over Wisconsin.
AP poll, week 9: Wisconsin 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 392 days into reign #139, which began with a win over Purdue, with 13 defenses already behind it; this was its 14th defense. Ohio State went on to defend it 1 more time before Michigan took it on November 22, 1969, 406 days after the reign began.
For Wisconsin this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 3rd of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Ohio State led the belt series 2–0; all-time Ohio State leads 6–1. Every meeting →
About this game
On November 8, 1969, Ohio State defeated Wisconsin 62-7 at home in a Week 9 regular season matchup. Ohio State was the belt holder going into the game and successfully defended it 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 41644) · This game in the downloadable dataset