Miami defends the belt, 42–17, on the road at Rutgers.
AP poll, week 11: Miami No. 1 at Rutgers unranked · No. 1 that week: NC State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Miami came in 756 days into reign #253, which began with a win over Florida State, with 26 defenses already behind it; this was its 27th defense. Miami went on to defend it 4 more times before Ohio State took it on January 3, 2003, 818 days after the reign began.
For Rutgers this was its 20th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Miami led the belt series 1–0; all-time Miami leads 2–0.
About this game
Miami visited Rutgers on November 2, 2002, in a regular season week 11 matchup. Rutgers won 42-17. As the belt's defending champion, Miami retained the belt despite the loss.
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 223060164) · This game in the downloadable dataset