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State of the Belt

A running check on where Notre Dame’s current reign stands against the belt’s all-time boards — recomputed from the full lineage every time the site rebuilds, so it’s never more stale than the latest game.

#332Notre Dame’s reign, all-time sequence

294 daysHeld so far

2Defenses

No. 99All-time by reign length

No. 177All-time by defenses in one reign

Milestone watch

How close is this reign to the record books?

Notre Dame’s current reign is tied for No. 99 on the longest-reigns board.
Notre Dame is No. 13 all-time in total days holding the belt — 165 days short of No. 12.
This is Notre Dame’s 9th reign — tied for No. 8 for the most of any program.
At 2 defenses, this reign is tied for No. 177 for most-defended, all-time.

This reign

The defenses so far

28Closest defense this reign · 41–13 vs. Wisconsin

52Biggest win this reign · 52–0 vs. Rice

The big picture

158 years of the belt, by the numbers

1,637 belt games have been played across 246 programs and 332 reigns since 1869.

Every number here comes straight from the lineage the rest of the site is built from — the same source as the records page and heartbreak list — recalculated on every rebuild, not on a separate schedule. Rank ties aren’t broken; a reign or program tied with the one above it is noted as tied rather than assigned a false edge.