Stanford takes the belt, 23–20, on the road at Ohio State.
AP poll, week 4: Stanford unranked at Ohio State No. 13 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Stanford took the belt here, ending Ohio State’s run of 308 days and 3 defenses (reign #175) and starting reign #176. It lasted 14 days and 1 defense, until Arizona State took it on October 9, 1982.
For Stanford this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before — and it took it back here.
This is the only time Ohio State and Stanford have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Stanford visited Ohio State on September 25, 1982, in a regular season week 4 matchup. The Cardinal won 23-20, taking the lineal college football belt from the Buckeyes 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 51474) · This game in the downloadable dataset