Michigan defends the belt, 42–0, at home over Minnesota.
AP poll, week 8: Minnesota 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 35 days into reign #151, which began with a win over UCLA, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Michigan went on to defend it 3 more times before Ohio State took it on November 25, 1972, 63 days after the reign began.
For Minnesota this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Michigan leads 2–0.
About this game
Michigan defended the belt at home against Minnesota on October 28, 1972, winning 42-0 to retain it.
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 43713) · This game in the downloadable dataset