Nebraska defends the belt, 38–7, at home over UAB.
AP poll, week 2: UAB unranked at Nebraska No. 4 · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Nebraska came in 350 days into reign #248, which began with a win over Washington, with 11 defenses already behind it; this was its 12th defense. Nebraska went on to defend it 3 more times before Texas A&M took it on October 10, 1998, 385 days after the reign began.
For UAB this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t; this remains its only belt game.
This is the only time Nebraska and UAB have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Nebraska defended the belt at home against UAB on September 5, 1998, winning 38-7 in week 2 of the regular season.
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 61742) · This game in the downloadable dataset