Ohio State defends the belt, 21–14, on the road at Michigan.
AP poll, week 12: Ohio State No. 1 at Michigan No. 4 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ohio State came in 49 days into reign #160, which began with a win over UCLA, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. It was the last defense: UCLA took the belt in the very next belt game, on January 1, 1976.
For Michigan this was its 16th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
It was the 6th of 11 belt games between the two; going in, Ohio State led the belt series 3–2; all-time Ohio State leads 8–3. Every meeting →
About this game
Ohio State visited Michigan on November 22, 1975, in week 12 of the regular season. Michigan won 21-14, but Ohio State retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 46292) · This game in the downloadable dataset