North Carolina takes the belt, 20–13, on the road at Miami.
AP poll, week 5: North Carolina No. 14 at Miami unranked · No. 1 that week: Navy. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
North Carolina took the belt here, ending Miami’s run of 6 days and 0 defenses (reign #116) and starting reign #117. It lasted 8 days and 0 defenses, until Maryland took it on October 19, 1957.
For North Carolina this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
North Carolina visited Miami on October 11, 1957, and defeated the Hurricanes 20-13 in a regular season week 5 matchup. With the victory, North Carolina took possession of the College Football Belt from Miami.
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 Game record: College Football Data (id 33903) · This game in the downloadable dataset