Texas A&M defends the belt, 17–14, at home over Missouri.
AP poll, week 12: Missouri No. 19 at Texas A&M No. 6 · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Texas A&M came in 35 days into reign #249, which began with a win over Nebraska, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. It was the last defense: Texas took the belt in the very next belt game, on November 27, 1998.
For Missouri this was its 5th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Texas A&M leads 2–0.
About this game
Texas A&M defeated Missouri 17-14 on November 14, 1998, in a regular season week 12 matchup. As the belt's defending holder, Texas A&M successfully retained the championship.
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 62276) · This game in the downloadable dataset