Florida takes the belt, 31–17, on the road at LSU.
AP poll, week 6: Florida No. 9 at LSU unranked · No. 1 that week: Texas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Florida took the belt here, ending LSU’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #182) and starting reign #183. It lasted 28 days and 2 defenses, until Auburn took it on October 29, 1983.
For Florida this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the 3rd of 5 belt games between the two; going in, LSU led the belt series 2–0; all-time LSU leads 3–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Florida defeated LSU 31-17 on October 1, 1983, in Baton Rouge during the regular season. With this victory on the road, Florida took the College Football Belt from LSU.
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 52201) · This game in the downloadable dataset