Ohio State takes the belt, 41–20, on the road at UCLA.
AP poll, week 5: Ohio State No. 2 at UCLA No. 13 · 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 UCLA’s run of 14 days and 1 defense (reign #159) and starting reign #160. It lasted 89 days and 7 defenses, until UCLA took it on January 1, 1976.
For Ohio State this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time it is 1–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Ohio State defeated UCLA 20-41 on October 4, 1975, in Los Angeles during week 5 of the regular season. With this victory, Ohio State took the College Football Belt from UCLA.
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 45813) · This game in the downloadable dataset