Florida State defends the belt, 63–14, at home over North Carolina.
AP poll, week 4: North Carolina 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 364 days into reign #252, which began with a win over NC State, with 11 defenses already behind it; this was its 12th defense. Florida State went on to defend it 2 more times before Miami took it on October 7, 2000, 385 days after the reign began.
For North Carolina this was its 10th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
It was the 2nd of 2 belt games between the two; going in, Florida State led the belt series 1–0; all-time Florida State leads 2–0.
About this game
Florida State hosted North Carolina on September 16, 2000, in a week 4 regular season matchup. The Seminoles defeated the Tar Heels 63-14 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 63199) · This game in the downloadable dataset