Florida State defends the belt, 48–28, on the road at Tulane.
AP poll, week 6: Florida State No. 6 at Tulane unranked · No. 1 that week: LSU. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Florida State came in 14 days into reign #204, which began with a win over Clemson, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. Florida State went on to defend it 7 more times before Southern Miss took it on September 2, 1989, 350 days after the reign began.
For Tulane this was its 15th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
This is the only time Florida State and Tulane have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
On October 1, 1988, Florida State traveled to Tulane for a regular season matchup in week 6. Tulane won the game 48-28, but Florida State held the belt entering the contest and retained it 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 55493) · This game in the downloadable dataset