Miami defends the belt, 38–0, at home over Temple.
AP poll, week 11: Temple unranked at Miami No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Maryland. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Miami came in 392 days into reign #253, which began with a win over Florida State, with 13 defenses already behind it; this was its 14th defense. Miami went on to defend it 17 more times before Ohio State took it on January 3, 2003, 818 days after the reign began.
For Temple this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Miami led the belt series 1–0; all-time Miami leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Miami, defending the Belt, hosted Temple on November 3, 2001 in week 11 of the regular season. Miami won 38-0 and retained the Belt.
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 213072390) · This game in the downloadable dataset