South Carolina takes the belt, 24–20, on the road at Georgia.
AP poll, week 5: South Carolina unranked at Georgia No. 23 · No. 1 that week: Pittsburgh. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
South Carolina took the belt here, ending Georgia’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #207) and starting reign #208. It lasted 28 days and 2 defenses, until NC State took it on October 28, 1989.
For South Carolina this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the 3rd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Georgia led the belt series 2–0; all-time Georgia leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
South Carolina visited Georgia on September 30, 1989, in a week 5 regular season matchup. The Gamecocks won 24-20, taking the College Football Belt from the host Bulldogs.
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 56139) · This game in the downloadable dataset