Nebraska defends the belt, 49–21, on the road at Baylor.
AP poll, week 8: Nebraska No. 3 at Baylor unranked · No. 1 that week: North Carolina. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Nebraska came in 21 days into reign #248, which began with a win over Washington, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Nebraska went on to defend it 13 more times before Texas A&M took it on October 10, 1998, 385 days after the reign began.
For Baylor this was its 7th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
This is the only time Baylor and Nebraska have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Nebraska visited Baylor on October 11, 1997, in a regular season matchup. Baylor won 49-21. Nebraska entered the game as the belt's defending champion and 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 61353) · This game in the downloadable dataset