TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- The biggest winner on a wacky day of college football appears to be a team that didn't even play.
Fourth-ranked Florida State needed at least two of the top three undefeated teams to lose Saturday, and they did. Now, coach Bobby Bowden and the Seminoles seemed headed to the Fiesta Bowl for the national championship."Nobody can mess it up now, can they?" Bowden asked moments after Texas A&M's 36-33 double overtime victory over No. 2 Kansas State. "I mean nobody behind us can go ahead of us, right?"
Earlier in the day, No. 3 UCLA lost 49-45 to Miami. Top-ranked Tennessee played later against Mississippi State in the SEC title game.
But, the Seminoles are not guaranteed a spot in the Fiesta.
"I can't really tell you who will be in that game," BCS spokesman Charles Bloom said. "You can't assume the next highest-ranked team will be in, because we don't have all the numbers."
"One poll could change the whole thing," he said. "We assumed it was going to be close if we had three undefeated teams. I think you can assume it would be close between all the one-loss teams."