Texas A&M takes the belt, 28–21, at home over Nebraska.
AP poll, week 7: Nebraska No. 8 at Texas A&M No. 10 · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Texas A&M took the belt here, ending Nebraska’s run of 385 days and 15 defenses (reign #248) and starting reign #249. It lasted 48 days and 5 defenses, until Texas took it on November 27, 1998.
For Texas A&M this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Nebraska led the belt series 1–0; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Texas A&M defeated Nebraska 28-21 on October 10, 1998, in regular season week 7 play. With this victory, Texas A&M took possession of the College Football Belt from Nebraska.
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 62021) · This game in the downloadable dataset