Miami defends the belt, 28–27, at home over Florida State.
AP poll, week 8: Florida State No. 9 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 735 days into reign #253, which began with a win over Florida State, with 24 defenses already behind it; this was its 25th defense. Miami went on to defend it 6 more times before Ohio State took it on January 3, 2003, 818 days after the reign began.
For Florida State this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 4th of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Miami led the belt series 2–1; all-time Miami leads 4–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Miami defended the belt at home against Florida State on October 12, 2002, winning 28-27 in week 8 of the regular season.
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 222852390) · This game in the downloadable dataset