Georgia takes the belt, 23–6, at home over Mississippi State.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Georgia took the belt here, ending Mississippi State’s run of 14 days and 0 defenses (reign #206) and starting reign #207. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until South Carolina took it on September 30, 1989.
For Georgia this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Georgia led the belt series 2–0; all-time Georgia leads 3–0. Every meeting →
About this game
On September 23, 1989, Georgia defeated Mississippi State 23-6 in Athens to claim the college football belt. With the victory, Georgia took the belt from Mississippi State on the field.
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 56064) · This game in the downloadable dataset