Michigan defends the belt, 21–7, on the road at Indiana.
AP poll, week 9: Michigan No. 4 at Indiana unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Michigan came in 42 days into reign #151, which began with a win over UCLA, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Michigan went on to defend it 2 more times before Ohio State took it on November 25, 1972, 63 days after the reign began.
For Indiana this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 8 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Indiana and Michigan have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Michigan traveled to Indiana on November 4, 1972, as the defending belt holder. Indiana won the game 21-7, but Michigan 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 43777) · This game in the downloadable dataset