Miami defends the belt, 43–21, on the road at Pittsburgh.
AP poll, week 6: Miami No. 1 at Pittsburgh unranked · No. 1 that week: Michigan State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Miami came in 355 days into reign #253, which began with a win over Florida State, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. Miami went on to defend it 21 more times before Ohio State took it on January 3, 2003, 818 days after the reign began.
For Pittsburgh this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Miami led the belt series 1–0; all-time Miami leads 3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Miami visited Pittsburgh on September 27, 2001, in a regular season matchup. Pittsburgh won 43-21. Miami was the belt holder coming in and retained the belt with the victory.
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 Box score at ESPN · Game record: College Football Data (id 212700221) · This game in the downloadable dataset