Nebraska defends the belt, 56–27, at home over Louisiana Tech.
AP poll, week 1: Louisiana Tech unranked at Nebraska No. 4 · No. 1 that week: North Carolina. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Nebraska came in 343 days into reign #248, which began with a win over Washington, with 10 defenses already behind it; this was its 11th defense. Nebraska went on to defend it 4 more times before Texas A&M took it on October 10, 1998, 385 days after the reign began.
For Louisiana Tech this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 5 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Louisiana Tech and Nebraska have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Nebraska defended the belt at home against Louisiana Tech on August 29, 1998, winning 56-27 in the regular season opener. The victory allowed Nebraska 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 61709) · This game in the downloadable dataset