Florida State defends the belt, 29–3, at home over BYU.
AP poll, week 1: BYU unranked at Florida State No. 2 · No. 1 that week: Clemson. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Florida State came in 343 days into reign #252, which began with a win over NC State, with 9 defenses already behind it; this was its 10th defense. Florida State went on to defend it 4 more times before Miami took it on October 7, 2000, 385 days after the reign began.
For BYU this was its 4th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
This is the only time BYU and Florida State have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Florida State defended the belt against BYU on August 26, 2000, in week 1 of the regular season, winning 29-3 at home to retain the championship.
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 63068) · This game in the downloadable dataset