Miami defends the belt, 49–7, on the road at Syracuse.
AP poll, week 15: Miami No. 1 at Syracuse unranked · No. 1 that week: Maryland. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Miami came in 784 days into reign #253, which began with a win over Florida State, with 29 defenses already behind it; this was its 30th defense. Miami went on to defend it 1 more time before Ohio State took it on January 3, 2003, 818 days after the reign began.
For Syracuse this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times 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 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Miami visited Syracuse on November 30, 2002, in week 15 of the regular season. Syracuse won 49-7. Miami entered as the belt holder and 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 223340183) · This game in the downloadable dataset