Michigan takes the belt, 24–12, at home over Ohio State.
AP poll, week 11: Ohio State No. 4 at Michigan No. 7 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Michigan took the belt here, ending Ohio State’s run of 406 days and 15 defenses (reign #139) and starting reign #140. It lasted 40 days and 0 defenses, until USC took it on January 1, 1970.
For Michigan this was its 14th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the 4th of 11 belt games between the two; going in, Ohio State led the belt series 2–1; all-time Ohio State leads 8–3. Every meeting →
About this game
Michigan defeated Ohio State 24-12 on November 22, 1969, taking the College Football Belt from the Buckeyes in this regular season matchup.
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 41749) · This game in the downloadable dataset