When the Syracuse Orange took down the Clemson Tigers on Friday night, it wasn’t just any win. The victory handed us the upset of the year (so far), and also some fictional hardware, the College Football Lineal Championship Belt.
For those unfamiliar, the belt works like this: the Nebraska Cornhuskers were the original “belt” holders on January 1, 1972, and retained it until the first game of that subsequent season -- a loss to UCLA. From UCLA on, each team to beat a belt holder takes the belt until such a time when they lose a game.