Miami defends the belt, 59–0, at home over Syracuse.
AP poll, week 13: Syracuse No. 14 at Miami No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Maryland. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Miami came in 406 days into reign #253, which began with a win over Florida State, with 15 defenses already behind it; this was its 16th defense. Miami went on to defend it 15 more times before Ohio State took it on January 3, 2003, 818 days after the reign began.
For Syracuse this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times 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 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Miami defeated Syracuse 59-0 on November 17, 2001 in week 13 of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, Miami retained the championship 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 213212390) · This game in the downloadable dataset