Miami defends the belt, 18–7, on the road at Boston College.
AP poll, week 12: Miami No. 1 at Boston College unranked · No. 1 that week: Maryland. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Miami came in 399 days into reign #253, which began with a win over Florida State, with 14 defenses already behind it; this was its 15th defense. Miami went on to defend it 16 more times before Ohio State took it on January 3, 2003, 818 days after the reign began.
For Boston College this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 9 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
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 visited Boston College on November 10, 2001, in week 12 of the regular season. Boston College won 18-7. Miami entered as the belt holder and retained it 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 213140103) · This game in the downloadable dataset