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Friday, December 13, 2002
No. 3 Florida State 35, Wake Forest 6
Associated Press
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Chris Weinke threw for 324 yards and
five touchdowns -- three to Marvin Minnis -- as No. 3 Florida State
beat Wake Forest 35-6 on Saturday.
|  | | Chris Weinke and the Seminoles may have been overlooking Wake Forest in preparation for next week's visit from Florida. |
The margin of victory was probably not enough to keep Florida
State -- which was a 48-point favorite over the Demon Deacons -- from
falling in the Bowl Championship Series standings.
The Seminoles are second in the standings, but Miami, a 35-7
winner over Pittsburgh on Saturday, will likely pass them based on
strength of schedule when the new rankings are released Monday.
Miami also has the head-to-head advantage over the Seminoles
with a 27-24 victory over them last month.
Florida State (10-1, 8-0 ACC) needed to blow out Wake Forest
(1-8, 1-6).
Despite the score, the Seminoles didn't do that.
Florida State led only 21-6 at the start of the fourth quarter.
But Weinke, who also had two interceptions, threw touchdowns passes
of 4 and 14 yards to Anquan Boldin on consecutive series to give
the Seminoles a 35-6 lead with 7:22 to play.
But Wake Forest ate up a chunk of clock on its next series,
finally turning the ball over on downs on the 27 with 2:08 to play.
Marcus Outzen then replaced Weinke at quarterback, and desperate
to score, began throwing the ball downfield.
On second-and-9 at the Wake 43, he appeared to hook up with
Boldin on the 8, but Boldin dropped the ball as he hit the sideline
and the officials ruled it incomplete causing the Florida State
fans in the crowd to roar in disapproval.
Outzen was intercepted on the next play by Quinitn Williams, who
was hit out of bounds at the end of a 40-yard return that caused a
flurry of pushing and shoving along the Wake Forest sideline with
25 seconds to play.
Wake Forest then took four shots at the end zone to end the
game.
The one bright spot for the Seminoles was the victory was the
314th of coach Bobby Bowden's career, tying him with Amos Alonzo
Stagg for the fourth-most in Division I-A history.
The Seminoles also lost three tailbacks during the game. When
coach Bobby Bowden took starter Travis Minor out with a slighlty
sprained ankle in the second half, backup Jeff Chaney was knocked
out of the game with a knee injury.
Bowden said Chaney was kiley out for the season with torn knee
ligaments.
Chaney's replacement, Davey Ford, left one series later with a
possible fractured collarbone. When fourth-stringer Greg Jones
temporarily limped off the field two plays later, Bowden was forced
to use receiver Nick Maddox in the backfield.
Maddox, who had three carries through Florida State's first 10
games, carried the ball four times for 52 yards before Jones
returned.
The game remained close in the first half thanks to Florida
State's errors.
Weinke got the Seminoles on the board six plays into their first
drive with a 10-yard touchdown pass to Minnis that made it 7-0.
But the Seminoles stumbled through their next three possessions
and, after a Wake Forest field goal, needed a 36-yard TD pass from
Weinke to Minnis to take a 14-3 lead into halftime.
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