Miami defends the belt, 42–31, at home over Louisiana Tech.
AP poll, week 10: Louisiana Tech unranked at Miami No. 4 · No. 1 that week: Clemson. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Miami came in 21 days into reign #253, which began with a win over Florida State, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Miami went on to defend it 29 more times before Ohio State took it on January 3, 2003, 818 days after the reign began.
For Louisiana Tech this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 5 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Louisiana Tech and Miami have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Miami defended the belt at home against Louisiana Tech on October 28, 2000, winning 42-31 in week 10 of the regular season.
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 63528) · This game in the downloadable dataset