Virginia takes the belt, 20–9, on the road at NC State.
AP poll, week 10: Virginia No. 24 at NC State No. 18 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Virginia took the belt here, ending NC State’s run of 7 days and 0 defenses (reign #209) and starting reign #210. It lasted 58 days and 2 defenses, until Illinois took it on January 1, 1990.
For Virginia this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt — and this was the day it took it.
This is the only time NC State and Virginia have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Virginia traveled to NC State on November 4, 1989, and defeated the home team 20-9 in a Week 10 regular season matchup. With the victory, Virginia took the College Football Belt from NC State.
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 56398) · This game in the downloadable dataset