Texas takes the belt, 26–24, at home over Texas A&M.
AP poll, week 14: Texas A&M No. 10 at Texas No. 20 · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Texas took the belt here, ending Texas A&M’s run of 48 days and 5 defenses (reign #249) and starting reign #250. It lasted 274 days and 1 defense, until NC State took it on August 28, 1999.
For Texas this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
This is the only time Texas and Texas A&M have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Texas defeated Texas A&M 26-24 on November 27, 1998 in the regular season finale. With the victory, Texas claimed the College Football Belt from Texas A&M.
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 62344) · This game in the downloadable dataset