Miami defends the belt, 28–21, at home over Pittsburgh.
AP poll, week 14: Pittsburgh No. 17 at Miami No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Maryland. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Miami came in 776 days into reign #253, which began with a win over Florida State, with 28 defenses already behind it; this was its 29th defense. Miami went on to defend it 2 more times before Ohio State took it on January 3, 2003, 818 days after the reign began.
For Pittsburgh this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 3rd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Miami led the belt series 2–0; all-time Miami leads 3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Miami defeated Pittsburgh 28-21 on November 22, 2002, in week 14 of the regular season. The Hurricanes were defending the belt and successfully retained it 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 223252390) · This game in the downloadable dataset