Florida State defends the belt, 35–10, on the road at Virginia.
AP poll, week 10: Florida State No. 1 at Virginia unranked · No. 1 that week: Michigan State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Florida State came in 42 days into reign #252, which began with a win over NC State, with 5 defenses already behind it; this was its 6th defense. Florida State went on to defend it 8 more times before Miami took it on October 7, 2000, 385 days after the reign began.
For Virginia this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time Florida State and Virginia have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
On October 30, 1999, Florida State traveled to Virginia for a regular season matchup in week 10. Virginia won 35-10, but Florida State was the defending 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 62831) · This game in the downloadable dataset