Virginia defends the belt, 32–25, at home over Virginia Tech.
AP poll, week 11: Virginia Tech unranked at Virginia No. 18 · No. 1 that week: Penn State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Virginia came in 7 days into reign #210, which began with a win over NC State, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Virginia went on to defend it 1 more time before Illinois took it on January 1, 1990, 58 days after the reign began.
For Virginia Tech this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had never held the belt.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time it is 1–1.
About this game
Virginia hosted Virginia Tech on November 11, 1989, in a regular season matchup with the belt on the line. Virginia won 32-25, successfully defending the championship.
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 56448) · This game in the downloadable dataset