Nebraska defends the belt, 77–14, at home over Iowa State.
AP poll, week 13: Iowa State unranked at Nebraska No. 3 · No. 1 that week: North Carolina. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Nebraska came in 56 days into reign #248, which began with a win over Washington, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Nebraska went on to defend it 8 more times before Texas A&M took it on October 10, 1998, 385 days after the reign began.
For Iowa State this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 7 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Nebraska led the belt series 1–0; all-time Nebraska leads 2–0.
About this game
Nebraska defended the belt at home against Iowa State on November 15, 1997, defeating the visiting Cyclones 77-14 to retain their lineal 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 61606) · This game in the downloadable dataset