Florida State takes the belt, 42–11, at home over NC State.
AP poll, week 4: NC State No. 20 at Florida State No. 1 · No. 1 that week: NC State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Florida State took the belt here, ending NC State’s run of 21 days and 2 defenses (reign #251) and starting reign #252. It lasted 385 days and 14 defenses, until Miami took it on October 7, 2000.
For Florida State this was its 3rd shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before — and it took it back here.
This is the only time Florida State and NC State have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
On September 18, 1999, Florida State defeated NC State 42-11 in week 4 of the regular season. With the victory, Florida State 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 62516) · This game in the downloadable dataset