Florida defends the belt, 29–10, at home over Vanderbilt.
AP poll, week 7: Vanderbilt unranked at Florida No. 7 · No. 1 that week: Texas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Florida came in 7 days into reign #183, which began with a win over LSU, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Florida went on to defend it 1 more time before Auburn took it on October 29, 1983, 28 days after the reign began.
For Vanderbilt this was its 14th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Vanderbilt led the belt series 1–0; all-time Florida leads 3–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Florida defended the College Football Belt at home against Vanderbilt on October 8, 1983, winning 29-10 to retain the title.
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 52254) · This game in the downloadable dataset