Nebraska defends the belt, 69–7, at home over Oklahoma.
AP poll, week 11: Oklahoma unranked at Nebraska No. 1 · No. 1 that week: North Carolina. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Nebraska came in 42 days into reign #248, which began with a win over Washington, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Nebraska went on to defend it 10 more times before Texas A&M took it on October 10, 1998, 385 days after the reign began.
For Oklahoma this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
This is the only time Nebraska and Oklahoma have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Nebraska defended the belt at home against Oklahoma on November 1, 1997, winning 69-7 to retain the championship.
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 61509) · This game in the downloadable dataset