Miami defends the belt, 32–20, at home over Florida.
AP poll, week 2: Florida unranked at Miami No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Miami came in 5 days into reign #185, which began with a win over Auburn, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. It was the last defense: Michigan took the belt in the very next belt game, on September 8, 1984.
For Florida this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once 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 defended the belt on September 1, 1984, defeating visiting Florida 32-20 in week 2 of the regular season.
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 52679) · This game in the downloadable dataset