Ohio State defends the belt, 35–6, on the road at Purdue.
AP poll, week 8: Ohio State No. 1 at Purdue unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ohio State came in 21 days into reign #160, which began with a win over UCLA, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Ohio State went on to defend it 4 more times before UCLA took it on January 1, 1976, 89 days after the reign began.
For Purdue this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 4th of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Ohio State led the belt series 3–0; all-time Ohio State leads 4–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Ohio State visited Purdue on October 25, 1975, in a week 8 regular season matchup. Ohio State won 35-6 and retained the Belt.
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 46020) · This game in the downloadable dataset