Michigan defends the belt, 9–6, at home over Purdue.
AP poll, week 11: Purdue unranked at Michigan No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Michigan came in 56 days into reign #151, which began with a win over UCLA, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. It was the last defense: Ohio State took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 25, 1972.
For Purdue this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Michigan leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Michigan defended the belt against Purdue on November 18, 1972, winning 9-6 at home in week 11 of the regular season.
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 43907) · This game in the downloadable dataset