Nebraska defends the belt, 35–0, on the road at Kansas.
AP poll, week 10: Nebraska No. 1 at Kansas unranked · No. 1 that week: North Carolina. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Nebraska came in 35 days into reign #248, which began with a win over Washington, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Nebraska went on to defend it 11 more times before Texas A&M took it on October 10, 1998, 385 days after the reign began.
For Kansas this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 3 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Kansas and Nebraska have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Nebraska visited Kansas on October 25, 1997, in a regular season Week 10 matchup. Kansas won 35-0. Nebraska was the belt holder entering the game 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 61456) · This game in the downloadable dataset