Auburn takes the belt, 28–21, at home over Florida.
AP poll, week 10: Florida No. 9 at Auburn No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Texas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Auburn took the belt here, ending Florida’s run of 28 days and 2 defenses (reign #183) and starting reign #184. It lasted 303 days and 4 defenses, until Miami took it on August 27, 1984.
For Auburn this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 4 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Auburn led the belt series 1–0; all-time Auburn leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
Auburn defeated Florida 28-21 on October 29, 1983 in Auburn. With this victory, Auburn took the College Football Belt from Florida.
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 52414) · This game in the downloadable dataset