Ohio State takes the belt, 14–11, at home over Michigan.
AP poll, week 12: Michigan No. 3 at Ohio State No. 9 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ohio State took the belt here, ending Michigan’s run of 63 days and 8 defenses (reign #151) and starting reign #152. It lasted 37 days and 0 defenses, until USC took it on January 1, 1973.
For Ohio State this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before — and it took it back here.
It was the 5th of 11 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 2–2; all-time Ohio State leads 8–3. Every meeting →
About this game
Ohio State defeated Michigan 14-11 on November 25, 1972, taking the college football belt from the visiting Wolverines.
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 43972) · This game in the downloadable dataset