What if one game had gone the other way?
Every belt game since 1869 is below. Flip any of them — the loser wins instead — and the page replays the belt rule from that day forward across all 97,985 games on record: whoever beats the holder takes it, ties stay put. New holders, new reigns, and either a day when history heals itself or a different champion today. Flip as many as you like; the link remembers them.
Every belt game, newest first
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The rule is the real one: whoever beats the holder takes the belt, a tie (there were ties before overtime) stays with the holder, every game counts. A flip makes the loser the winner (a flipped tie hands the belt to the challenger); the replay then follows the new holder’s actual schedule, game by game, on the same record the rest of the site is built from. Reality holds until your first flip, and “history heals itself” the first day both lines have the same holder — from then on they are identical, because the games are. One limit, the same one the real belt lives by: from the 1978 split on, only games between two Division I teams (FBS or FCS) can move the belt — the record has no schedules below Division I to follow it with, so a loss to a Division II team leaves the belt where it is. Before 1978 every game on record counts, club and service teams included.