Miami defends the belt, 52–6, at home over Boston College.
AP poll, week 14: Boston College unranked at Miami No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Clemson. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Miami came in 49 days into reign #253, which began with a win over Florida State, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Miami went on to defend it 25 more times before Ohio State took it on January 3, 2003, 818 days after the reign began.
For Boston College this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 9 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
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 defended the belt at home against Boston College on November 25, 2000, winning 52-6 in week 14 of the regular season. The decisive victory allowed Miami to retain the lineal 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 63730) · This game in the downloadable dataset