Florida State defends the belt, 28–10, at home over Georgia Southern.
AP poll, week 7: Georgia Southern unranked at Florida State No. 6 · No. 1 that week: Arkansas. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Florida State came in 21 days into reign #204, which began with a win over Clemson, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Florida State went on to defend it 6 more times before Southern Miss took it on September 2, 1989, 350 days after the reign began.
For Georgia Southern this was its first shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t; this remains its only belt game.
This is the only time Florida State and Georgia Southern have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Florida State defeated Georgia Southern 28-10 on October 8, 1988, in week 7 of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, Florida State kept the 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 55541) · This game in the downloadable dataset