Ohio State defends the belt, 49–0, at home over Iowa.
AP poll, week 6: Iowa unranked at Ohio State No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ohio State came in 7 days into reign #160, which began with a win over UCLA, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Ohio State went on to defend it 6 more times before UCLA took it on January 1, 1976, 89 days after the reign began.
For Iowa this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Ohio State led the belt series 1–0; all-time Ohio State leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Ohio State defeated Iowa 49-0 on October 11, 1975, in a regular season matchup at Columbus. The defending belt holder Ohio State retained the belt with the victory.
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 45885) · This game in the downloadable dataset