Miami defends the belt, 44–21, on the road at Temple.
AP poll, week 4: Miami No. 1 at Temple unranked · No. 1 that week: NC State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Miami came in 707 days into reign #253, which began with a win over Florida State, with 21 defenses already behind it; this was its 22nd defense. Miami went on to defend it 9 more times before Ohio State took it on January 3, 2003, 818 days after the reign began.
For Temple this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Miami led the belt series 2–0; all-time Miami leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Miami visited Temple on September 14, 2002, in a regular season matchup. Temple won 44-21, but Miami was the belt-holder entering the game 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 222570218) · This game in the downloadable dataset