Nebraska defends the belt, 24–17, at home over Oklahoma State.
AP poll, week 6: Oklahoma State unranked at Nebraska No. 2 · No. 1 that week: NC State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Nebraska came in 378 days into reign #248, which began with a win over Washington, with 14 defenses already behind it; this was its 15th defense. It was the last defense: Texas A&M took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 10, 1998.
For Oklahoma State this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Nebraska and Oklahoma State have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Nebraska defended the belt at home against Oklahoma State on October 3, 1998, winning 24-17 in week 6 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 61955) · This game in the downloadable dataset