Florida State defends the belt, 17–14, on the road at Clemson.
AP poll, week 9: Florida State No. 1 at Clemson unranked · No. 1 that week: Michigan State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Florida State came in 35 days into reign #252, which began with a win over NC State, with 4 defenses already behind it; this was its 5th defense. Florida State went on to defend it 9 more times before Miami took it on October 7, 2000, 385 days after the reign began.
For Clemson this was its 8th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 2nd of 3 belt games between the two; going in, Florida State led the belt series 1–0; all-time Florida State leads 2–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Florida State visited Clemson on October 23, 1999, in a week 9 regular season matchup. Florida State won 17-14, and as the belt's defending champion, 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 62776) · This game in the downloadable dataset