Miami defends the belt, 38–6, at home over Boston College.
AP poll, week 5: Boston College unranked at Miami No. 1 · No. 1 that week: NC State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Miami came in 714 days into reign #253, which began with a win over Florida State, with 22 defenses already behind it; this was its 23rd defense. Miami went on to defend it 8 more times before Ohio State took it on January 3, 2003, 818 days after the reign began.
For Boston College this was its 6th 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 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 defeated Boston College 38-6 on September 21, 2002, in a regular season week 5 matchup. As the belt's defending holder, Miami 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 222642390) · This game in the downloadable dataset