Nebraska defends the belt, 55–7, at home over Washington.
AP poll, week 5: Washington No. 20 at Nebraska No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Nebraska came in 371 days into reign #248, which began with a win over Washington, with 13 defenses already behind it; this was its 14th defense. Nebraska went on to defend it 1 more time before Texas A&M took it on October 10, 1998, 385 days after the reign began.
For Washington this was its 17th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 10 times before.
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 defeated visiting Washington 55-7 on September 26, 1998, in week 5 of the regular season. Nebraska was the defending belt holder and retained it with the victory.
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 61903) · This game in the downloadable dataset