Florida State defends the belt, 30–23, on the road at Florida.
AP poll, week 13: Florida State No. 1 at Florida No. 3 · No. 1 that week: Michigan State. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Florida State came in 63 days into reign #252, which began with a win over NC State, with 7 defenses already behind it; this was its 8th defense. Florida State went on to defend it 6 more times before Miami took it on October 7, 2000, 385 days after the reign began.
For Florida this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
It was the 2nd of 4 belt games between the two; going in, Florida State led the belt series 1–0; all-time it is 2–2. Every meeting →
About this game
Florida State visited Florida on November 20, 1999, in week 13 of the regular season. Florida State won 30-23, and as the defending belt holder, retained the College Football Belt.
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 62982) · This game in the downloadable dataset