Miami takes the belt, 27–24, at home over Florida State.
AP poll, week 7: Florida State No. 1 at Miami No. 7 · No. 1 that week: Clemson. The belt vs. the polls →
Where this game sits in the lineage
Miami took the belt here, ending Florida State’s run of 385 days and 14 defenses (reign #252) and starting reign #253. It lasted 818 days and 31 defenses, until Ohio State took it on January 3, 2003.
For Miami this was its 12th shot at the belt; it had held the belt 3 times before — and it took it back here.
It was the 2nd of 5 belt games between the two; going in, Florida State led the belt series 1–0; all-time Miami leads 4–1. Every meeting →
About this game
Miami defeated Florida State 27-24 on October 7, 2000 in regular season week 7 play. With this victory, Miami took the college football belt from Florida State.
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 63374) · This game in the downloadable dataset