NC State takes the belt, 20–10, on the road at South Carolina.
AP poll, week 9: NC State No. 20 at South Carolina No. 25 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
NC State took the belt here, ending South Carolina’s run of 28 days and 2 defenses (reign #208) and starting reign #209. It lasted 7 days and 0 defenses, until Virginia took it on November 4, 1989.
For NC State this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time NC State leads 2–0.
About this game
NC State visited South Carolina on October 28, 1989, and defeated the Gamecocks 20-10. With this victory, NC State took the College Football Belt from South Carolina.
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 56329) · This game in the downloadable dataset