Florida State defends the belt, 33–10, at home over Wake Forest.
AP poll, week 8: Wake Forest unranked 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 28 days into reign #252, which began with a win over NC State, with 3 defenses already behind it; this was its 4th defense. Florida State went on to defend it 10 more times before Miami took it on October 7, 2000, 385 days after the reign began.
For Wake Forest this was its 2nd shot at the belt; it had never held the belt. It still hasn’t: 3 attempts in all, every one of them a loss or a tie.
This is the only time Florida State and Wake Forest have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Florida State hosted Wake Forest on October 16, 1999, in a regular season week 8 matchup. The Seminoles won 33-10 and retained the College Football Belt as the defending champion.
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 62733) · This game in the downloadable dataset