NC State takes the belt, 23–20, on the road at Texas.
AP poll, week 1: NC State unranked at Texas No. 17 · No. 1 that week: Wisconsin. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
NC State took the belt here, ending Texas’ run of 274 days and 1 defense (reign #250) and starting reign #251. It lasted 21 days and 2 defenses, until Florida State took it on September 18, 1999.
For NC State this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
This is the only time NC State and Texas have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
NC State visited Texas on August 28, 1999, in the first week of the regular season. NC State won 23-20, taking the College Football Belt from Texas with the victory 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 62383) · This game in the downloadable dataset