Nebraska defends the belt, 29–0, at home over Texas Tech.
AP poll, week 9: Texas Tech unranked at Nebraska No. 2 · No. 1 that week: North Carolina. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Nebraska came in 28 days into reign #248, which began with a win over Washington, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Nebraska went on to defend it 12 more times before Texas A&M took it on October 10, 1998, 385 days after the reign began.
For Texas Tech this was its 6th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time Nebraska and Texas Tech have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Nebraska defeated Texas Tech 29-0 on October 18, 1997, in week 9 of the regular season. Nebraska was the defending belt holder and retained it 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 61405) · This game in the downloadable dataset