Miami defends the belt, 49–27, on the road at Florida State.
AP poll, week 8: Miami No. 2 at Florida State No. 14 · No. 1 that week: Maryland. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Miami came in 371 days into reign #253, which began with a win over Florida State, with 11 defenses already behind it; this was its 12th defense. Miami went on to defend it 19 more times before Ohio State took it on January 3, 2003, 818 days after the reign began.
For Florida State this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 3rd of 5 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 1–1; all-time Miami leads 4–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Miami visited Florida State on October 13, 2001, in week 8 of the regular season. Florida State won 49-27, but Miami was the belt defender 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 212860052) · This game in the downloadable dataset