Florida State defends the belt, 31–21, at home over Miami.
AP poll, week 7: Miami No. 19 at Florida State No. 1 · No. 1 that week: Michigan State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Florida State came in 21 days into reign #252, which began with a win over NC State, with 2 defenses already behind it; this was its third defense. Florida State went on to defend it 11 more times before Miami took it on October 7, 2000, 385 days after the reign began.
For Miami this was its 11th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before.
It was the first of 5 meetings between the two with the belt on the line; all-time Miami leads 4–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Florida State defeated Miami 31-21 on October 9, 1999, in week 7 of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, Florida State retained the belt 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 62676) · This game in the downloadable dataset