Miami defends the belt, 45–17, on the road at Temple.
AP poll, week 9: Miami No. 4 at Temple unranked · No. 1 that week: Clemson. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Miami came in 14 days into reign #253, which began with a win over Florida State, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Miami went on to defend it 30 more times before Ohio State took it on January 3, 2003, 818 days after the reign began.
For Temple this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the first of 3 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Miami leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Miami visited Temple on October 21, 2000, in week 9 of the regular season. Temple won 45-17. As the belt's defending champion, Miami 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 63479) · This game in the downloadable dataset