Texas A&M defends the belt, 17–6, on the road at Oklahoma State.
AP poll, week 10: Texas A&M No. 7 at Oklahoma State unranked · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Texas A&M came in 21 days into reign #249, which began with a win over Nebraska, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Texas A&M went on to defend it 2 more times before Texas took it on November 27, 1998, 48 days after the reign began.
For Oklahoma State this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
This is the only time Oklahoma State and Texas A&M have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Texas A&M traveled to Oklahoma State on October 31, 1998, in week 10 of the regular season. Oklahoma State won 17-6, but Texas A&M was the belt defender and retained the championship 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 62173) · This game in the downloadable dataset