Ohio State defends the belt, 38–6, at home over Minnesota.
AP poll, week 11: Minnesota 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 42 days into reign #160, which began with a win over UCLA, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Ohio State went on to defend it 1 more time before UCLA took it on January 1, 1976, 89 days after the reign began.
For Minnesota this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Ohio State led the belt series 1–0; all-time Ohio State leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Ohio State defeated Minnesota 38-6 on November 15, 1975, in Columbus. The Buckeyes were defending the college football belt and retained it with this 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 46230) · This game in the downloadable dataset