UCLA retains the belt after a 10–10 tie with Ohio State.
AP poll, week 5: Ohio State No. 10 at UCLA No. 5 · No. 1 that week: Pittsburgh. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
UCLA came in 275 days into reign #161, which began with a win over Ohio State, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. UCLA went on to defend it 6 more times before USC took it on November 20, 1976, 324 days after the reign began.
For Ohio State this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before. A tie leaves the belt with the holder, so it went home empty-handed.
It was the 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 1–1; all-time it is 1–1–1. Every meeting →
About this game
On October 2, 1976, UCLA hosted Ohio State in a regular season matchup that ended in a 10-10 tie. Under the site's tie rule, the belt holder retains possession on a draw, so UCLA successfully defended 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 46631) · This game in the downloadable dataset