Michigan defends the belt, 10–0, at home over Michigan State.
AP poll, week 6: Michigan State unranked at Michigan No. 5 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Michigan came in 21 days into reign #151, which began with a win over UCLA, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Michigan went on to defend it 5 more times before Ohio State took it on November 25, 1972, 63 days after the reign began.
For Michigan State this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 3rd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Michigan led the belt series 2–0; all-time Michigan leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Michigan hosted Michigan State on October 14, 1972, in a regular season week 6 matchup. Michigan won 10-0, defending the belt against the visiting Spartans.
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 43589) · This game in the downloadable dataset