UCLA takes the belt, 23–10, at a neutral site over Ohio State.
AP poll, week 14: Ohio State No. 1 at UCLA No. 11 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
UCLA took the belt here, ending Ohio State’s run of 89 days and 7 defenses (reign #160) and starting reign #161. It lasted 324 days and 10 defenses, until USC took it on November 20, 1976.
For UCLA this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Ohio State led the belt series 1–0; all-time it is 1–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
On January 1, 1976, UCLA defeated Ohio State 23-10 in a postseason game played at a neutral site. With this victory, UCLA took the College Football Belt from Ohio State on the field.
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 46347) · This game in the downloadable dataset