Alabama defends the belt, 36–0, at home over Miami.
AP poll, week 11: Miami unranked at Alabama No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Alabama came in 35 days into reign #163, which began with a win over USC, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Alabama went on to defend it 4 more times before USC took it on September 23, 1978, 350 days after the reign began.
For Miami this was its 6th 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 Alabama leads 2–0.
About this game
Alabama defended the belt against Miami on November 12, 1977, defeating the visiting Hurricanes 36-0 to retain the championship.
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 47844) · This game in the downloadable dataset