Alabama defends the belt, 21–7, on the road at Florida.
AP poll, week 4: Alabama No. 3 at Florida unranked · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Alabama came in 266 days into reign #195, which began with a win over USC, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Alabama went on to defend it 3 more times before Penn State took it on October 25, 1986, 301 days after the reign began.
For Florida this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 8 belt games between the two; going in, Alabama led the belt series 1–0; all-time Alabama leads 7–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Alabama, defending the belt, traveled to Florida on September 20, 1986, in a week 4 regular season matchup. Florida won 21-7, but Alabama retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 54117) · This game in the downloadable dataset