Miami defends the belt, 26–0, on the road at Syracuse.
AP poll, week 13: Miami No. 2 at Syracuse unranked · No. 1 that week: Clemson. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Miami came in 42 days into reign #253, which began with a win over Florida State, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Miami went on to defend it 26 more times before Ohio State took it on January 3, 2003, 818 days after the reign began.
For Syracuse this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
It was the first of 4 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Miami leads 4–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Miami visited Syracuse on November 18, 2000, in week 13 of the regular season. Syracuse won 26-0. Miami entered the game as the belt holder and 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 63687) · This game in the downloadable dataset