Ohio State defends the belt, 24–14, at home over Indiana.
AP poll, week 9: Indiana 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 28 days into reign #160, which began with a win over UCLA, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Ohio State went on to defend it 3 more times before UCLA took it on January 1, 1976, 89 days after the reign began.
For Indiana this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 8 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 4 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Ohio State leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Ohio State hosted Indiana on November 1, 1975, in a regular season matchup. The Buckeyes defeated the Hoosiers 24-14, successfully defending the college football 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 46090) · This game in the downloadable dataset