Nebraska defends the belt, 54–15, at a neutral site over Texas A&M.
AP poll, week 17: Texas A&M No. 20 at Nebraska No. 2 · No. 1 that week: North Carolina. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Nebraska came in 77 days into reign #248, which began with a win over Washington, with 8 defenses already behind it; this was its 9th defense. Nebraska went on to defend it 6 more times before Texas A&M took it on October 10, 1998, 385 days after the reign began.
For Texas A&M this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
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, defending the belt, faced Texas A&M at a neutral site on December 6, 1997, in a postseason matchup. Nebraska won 54-15 and retained the belt.
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 61686) · This game in the downloadable dataset