Florida State defends the belt, 42–10, on the road at North Carolina.
AP poll, week 5: Florida State No. 1 at North Carolina unranked · No. 1 that week: NC State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Florida State came in 7 days into reign #252, which began with a win over NC State, with no defenses yet; this was its first defense. Florida State went on to defend it 13 more times before Miami took it on October 7, 2000, 385 days after the reign began.
For North Carolina this was its 9th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the first of 2 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Florida State leads 2–0.
About this game
Florida State visited North Carolina on September 25, 1999, in a Week 5 regular season matchup. North Carolina won 42-10. Florida State entered the game as the belt holder and retained it with the victory.
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 62571) · This game in the downloadable dataset