Texas A&M defends the belt, 35–14, on the road at Baylor.
AP poll, week 8: Texas A&M No. 8 at Baylor unranked · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Texas A&M came in 7 days into reign #249, which began with a win over Nebraska, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Texas A&M went on to defend it 4 more times before Texas took it on November 27, 1998, 48 days after the reign began.
For Baylor this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
This is the only time Baylor and Texas A&M have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Texas A&M visited Baylor on October 17, 1998, in a regular season matchup. Baylor won 35-14. Texas A&M retained the belt 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 62071) · This game in the downloadable dataset