Nebraska defends the belt, 27–24, on the road at Colorado.
AP poll, week 15: Nebraska No. 2 at Colorado unranked · No. 1 that week: North Carolina. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Nebraska came in 69 days into reign #248, which began with a win over Washington, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Nebraska went on to defend it 7 more times before Texas A&M took it on October 10, 1998, 385 days after the reign began.
For Colorado this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
This is the only time Colorado and Nebraska have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Nebraska visited Colorado on November 28, 1997, in a regular season matchup. Colorado won 27-24, but Nebraska retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 61673) · This game in the downloadable dataset