Notre Dame defends the belt, 44–0, on the road at Miami.
AP poll, week 14: Notre Dame No. 3 at Miami unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Notre Dame came in 35 days into reign #154, which began with a win over USC, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Notre Dame went on to defend it 3 more times before Purdue took it on September 28, 1974, 336 days after the reign began.
For Miami this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
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
Notre Dame defended the belt on December 1, 1973, in a regular season matchup at Miami. The final score was 44-0, with Miami scoring all 44 points. Notre Dame retained the belt 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 Game record: College Football Data (id 44758) · This game in the downloadable dataset