Ohio State defends the belt, 56–0, at home over Wisconsin.
AP poll, week 7: Wisconsin 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 14 days into reign #160, which began with a win over UCLA, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Ohio State went on to defend it 5 more times before UCLA took it on January 1, 1976, 89 days after the reign began.
For Wisconsin this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 4th of 7 belt games between the two; going in, Ohio State led the belt series 3–0; all-time Ohio State leads 6–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Ohio State defeated Wisconsin 56-0 on October 18, 1975, in Columbus. As the belt's defending holder, Ohio State retained the championship 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 45951) · This game in the downloadable dataset