Florida takes the belt, 23–14, on the road at Alabama.
AP poll, week 4: Florida unranked at Alabama No. 17 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Florida took the belt here, ending Alabama’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #197) and starting reign #198. It lasted 14 days and 1 defense, until LSU took it on October 3, 1987.
For Florida this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
It was the 3rd of 8 belt games between the two; going in, Alabama led the belt series 2–0; all-time Alabama leads 7–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Florida visited Alabama on September 19, 1987, in a regular season week 4 matchup. Alabama fell 14-23, and Florida claimed the College Football Belt with the victory.
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 54759) · This game in the downloadable dataset