Purdue takes the belt, 31–20, on the road at Notre Dame.
AP poll, week 4: Purdue unranked at Notre Dame No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Purdue took the belt here, ending Notre Dame’s run of 336 days and 7 defenses (reign #154) and starting reign #155. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until Duke took it on October 5, 1974.
For Purdue this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the 3rd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 1–1; all-time it is 2–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Purdue visited Notre Dame on September 28, 1974, and won 31-20 in week 4 of the regular season. With this victory, Purdue took the College Football Belt from Notre Dame.
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 44968) · This game in the downloadable dataset