Florida State defends the belt, 49–10, at home over Maryland.
AP poll, week 12: Maryland 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 56 days into reign #252, which began with a win over NC State, with 6 defenses already behind it; this was its 7th defense. Florida State went on to defend it 7 more times before Miami took it on October 7, 2000, 385 days after the reign began.
For Maryland this was its 10th 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 defeated Maryland 49-10 on November 13, 1999 in week 12 of the regular season. As the belt's defending holder, Florida State retained the championship 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 62934) · This game in the downloadable dataset