Miami takes the belt, 20–18, at home over Auburn.
AP poll, week 1: Auburn No. 1 at Miami No. 10 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Miami took the belt here, ending Auburn’s run of 303 days and 4 defenses (reign #184) and starting reign #185. It lasted 12 days and 1 defense, until Michigan took it on September 8, 1984.
For Miami this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Auburn led the belt series 1–0; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Auburn visited Miami on August 27, 1984, in the first week of the regular season. Miami won 20-18, taking the College Football Belt from Auburn on the field.
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 52663) · This game in the downloadable dataset