Florida State defends the belt, 59–7, on the road at Maryland.
AP poll, week 6: Florida State No. 2 at Maryland unranked · No. 1 that week: Clemson. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Florida State came in 376 days into reign #252, which began with a win over NC State, with 13 defenses already behind it; this was its 14th defense. It was the last defense: Miami took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 7, 2000.
For Maryland this was its 11th 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 visited Maryland on September 28, 2000, in a regular season Week 6 matchup. Maryland won 59-7. Despite the loss, Florida State retained the belt as the defending champion.
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 63298) · This game in the downloadable dataset