NC State defends the belt, 10–0, at home over South Carolina.
AP poll, week 2: South Carolina unranked at NC State No. 24 · No. 1 that week: NC State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
NC State came in 7 days into reign #251, which began with a win over Texas, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. NC State went on to defend it 1 more time before Florida State took it on September 18, 1999, 21 days after the reign began.
For South Carolina this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, NC State led the belt series 1–0; all-time NC State leads 2–0.
About this game
NC State hosted South Carolina on September 4, 1999 in week 2 of the regular season. NC State won 10-0, successfully defending the belt against the visiting Gamecocks.
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 62424) · This game in the downloadable dataset