Florida State defends the belt, 26–21, on the road at Georgia Tech.
AP poll, week 3: Florida State No. 2 at Georgia Tech unranked · No. 1 that week: Clemson. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Florida State came in 357 days into reign #252, which began with a win over NC State, with 10 defenses already behind it; this was its 11th defense. Florida State went on to defend it 3 more times before Miami took it on October 7, 2000, 385 days after the reign began.
For Georgia Tech this was its 14th shot at the belt; it had held the belt twice before.
This is the only time Florida State and Georgia Tech have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Florida State visited Georgia Tech on September 9, 2000, in week 3 of the regular season. Florida State won 26-21 and 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 63146) · This game in the downloadable dataset