Nebraska takes the belt, 14–7, at home over Notre Dame.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Nebraska took the belt here, ending Notre Dame’s run of 21 days and 2 defenses (reign #46) and starting reign #47. It lasted 14 days and 1 defense, until Syracuse took it on November 24, 1923.
For Nebraska this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time Nebraska and Notre Dame have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Notre Dame visited Nebraska on November 10, 1923, in a regular season game where Nebraska defeated Notre Dame 14-7. With this victory, Nebraska took the College Football Belt from Notre Dame.
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 13205) · This game in the downloadable dataset