Nebraska defends the belt, 26–14, on the road at Iowa State.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Nebraska came in 7 days into reign #47, which began with a win over Notre Dame, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. It was the last defense: Syracuse took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 24, 1923.
For Iowa State this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 7 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Nebraska leads 2–0.
About this game
Nebraska defended the College Football Belt on November 17, 1923, traveling to Iowa State in a regular season matchup. Iowa State won 26-14, but Nebraska retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 13263) · This game in the downloadable dataset