Ohio State defends the belt, 21–14, at home over Baylor.
AP poll, week 2: Baylor unranked at Ohio State No. 14 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Ohio State came in 294 days into reign #175, which began with a win over Michigan, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Ohio State went on to defend it 1 more time before Stanford took it on September 25, 1982, 308 days after the reign began.
For Baylor this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time Baylor and Ohio State have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Ohio State hosted Baylor on September 11, 1982, in week 2 of the regular season. Ohio State won 21-14, defending the belt against the visiting Baylor team.
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 51351) · This game in the downloadable dataset