Nebraska defends the belt, 45–38, on the road at Missouri.
AP poll, week 12: Nebraska No. 1 at Missouri unranked · No. 1 that week: North Carolina. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Nebraska came in 49 days into reign #248, which began with a win over Washington, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Nebraska went on to defend it 9 more times before Texas A&M took it on October 10, 1998, 385 days after the reign began.
For Missouri this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Nebraska visited Missouri on November 8, 1997, in a regular season week 12 matchup. Missouri defeated Nebraska 45-38, but 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 61556) · This game in the downloadable dataset