Notre Dame takes the belt, 37–6, at home over Alabama.
AP poll, week 12: Alabama No. 17 at Notre Dame No. 7 · No. 1 that week: Pittsburgh. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Notre Dame took the belt here, ending Alabama’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #200) and starting reign #201. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until Penn State took it on November 21, 1987.
For Notre Dame this was its 16th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 6 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 3rd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, the series stood 1–1; all-time it is 2–2. Every meeting →
About this game
On November 14, 1987, Notre Dame defeated Alabama 37-6 at home in a regular season game. With this victory, Notre Dame took the College Football Belt from Alabama.
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 55178) · This game in the downloadable dataset