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1/4/06

PENN STATE 26 | FLORIDA STATE 23 (3 OT)

Penn State prevails
Kelly’s kick makes up for earlier misses

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Steven Wine
ASSOCIATED PRESS

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</IMG> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=credit width=200>WILLIE J . ALLEN JR . | ASSOCIATED PRESS </TD></TR><TR><TD class=cutline width=200>Bobby Bowden, left, of Florida State and Joe Paterno of Penn State meet before the Orange Bowl. They rank one-two in career coaching victories. </TD></TR><TR><TD align=middle>
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</IMG> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=credit width=200>CAROLYN KASTER | ASSOCIATED PRESS </TD></TR><TR><TD class=cutline width=200>Florida State’s Willie Reid is dragged down by Sean Lee of Penn State in the first quarter as Jeremy Kapinos, left, Ethan Kilmer (43) and Tim Shaw (20) close in. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>


MIAMI — This really was one for the ages.
For more than four hours, Joe Paterno and Bobby Bowden paced the Orange Bowl sidelines, searching for offense and enduring missed kicks.
Finally, in the third overtime, at 1 a.m. today, Kevin Kelly made a 29-yard field goal, giving Paterno and Penn State a 26-23 victory over Bowden’s Florida State Seminoles.
"I told him we’re too old for this," Paterno said afterward. "It’s almost past my bedtime."
Paterno had said he didn’t want the game to be about him and Bowden, who rank one-two in career coaching victories. And it turned out to be about missed opportunities, improbable twists and epic length.
Kelly’s winning kick came on second down. Given two earlier chances to win the game, he missed field-goal attempts of 29 and 38 yards.
Florida State counterpart Gary Cismesia missed an extra point in the first half and field-goal tries of 44 and 38 yards in overtime.
The No. 3-ranked Nittany Lions finished 11-1, with the only loss coming when they gave up a touchdown to Michigan on the game’s final play. The season represented a big rebound for Paterno’s program, which went 7-16 in 2003-04.
No. 22 Florida State fell to 8-5, Bowden’s worst season since 1981.
In the second overtime, Penn State’s Austin Scott and Florida State’s B.J. Dean each had 1-yard touchdown runs.
Each team had plenty of chances to win it long before the wee hours of this morning. Kelly missed a 29-yard field goal wide left with 35 seconds left in regulation, then missed a 38-yarder — also left — at the end of the first overtime.
Meanwhile, Cismesia’s night wasn’t faring well, either, as he missed a 44-yard field goal wide right in the first overtime — after missing an extra point that turned out to be crucial in the first half.
Cismesia did, however, connect on a 48-yard field goal with 4:08 remaining to tie the score at 16.
It was the second overtime game in Orange Bowl history. Michigan beat Alabama 35-34 six years ago.
Penn State took a 16-13 lead with 13:36 left, when Florida State quarterback Drew Weatherford was called for intentional grounding in his own end zone — giving the Nittany Lions a safety.
And the Seminoles then dodged a huge bullet with about nine minutes left, when Penn State quarterback Michael Robinson never got his hands on a snap from center and Florida State recovered at its own 5-yard line — setting up the drive where Cismesia tied the score.
Robinson found Ethan Kilmer with a 24-yard touchdown pass six seconds before halftime, and Penn State entered the fourth quarter with a 14-13 lead.
Kilmer’s leaping catch capped a quick two-play, 40-yard drive that took only 11 seconds — and wrested momentum away from the Seminoles, who scored two touchdowns within an 80-second span earlier in the quarter to take a short-lived 13-7 lead.
Willie Reid returned a punt 87 yards for a touchdown for Florida State’s first touchdown with 4:09 left in the half, and Lorenzo Booker caught a 57-yard screen pass from Weatherford on the Seminoles’ next play from scrimmage to give his team its first lead.
There was plenty of offense shortly before halftime, with the teams combining to score 20 points in the final 4:09 before the break.
Florida State kickers have been plagued by bad luck and unfortunate timing in recent years at Miami; each of the Seminoles’ last three trips to South Florida were marred by a missed kick. Xavier Beitia missed a 43-yard field goal wide left to give Miami a 28-27 win in 2002, Beitia missed a 39-yarder against Miami in the 2004 Orange Bowl in a 16-14 loss, and the Seminoles had a field goal blocked against Miami to open the 2004 regular season.
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Phrases that went through my mind last night as the two old fellas teams went at it in OT ..

"After you, no after you"

Train wreck.

What would Nuuge do?

Train wreck.

The coaches were still the story after the game.
 
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scooter1369 said:
I can't see a scenerio that places us over PSU in the final polls. They are 11-1. We're 10-2. They beat us. Period. Coulda, shoulda, woulda nothing. There's no place for that in this game. The playoffs start in August. You gotta win and win now. We didn't, they did. Hat's off to them.

I can see PSU jumping the loser of the Rose Bowl Game. Don't ask me why. I can just see the Joe Pa love fest continuing. They will have similar "1 loss" records and PSU won their bowl game. And you'll hear and see things like "and Joe Pa was able to stop FSU's offense without Bednarik Award winner Posluzny at the end who left with a knee injury."
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I agree with most of this, but I REALLY doubt PSU jumps UT/USC. My prediction for the final polls when all is said and done...

1. Texas
2. Southern Cal
3. Penn St.
4. Ohio St.
Not necessarily a true reflection of which teams were playing the best as the season came to a close, but like Scooter said...the playoff start in August.
 
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I'm so glad that Kevin Kelly got to make the game winning FG, and get that load off of his back after missing the first couple. I hate seeing kickers going out being the guys who screwed up. I kinda felt back for the FSU kicker too, but this Kelly kid really would have had it rough if Penn State lost.
 
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Miserable game to watch, and of course, I stayed up for it. Now, I'm dead tired, and have a full day ahead of me.

I actually thought Michael Robinson played like a warrior under pressure though. He took some serious hits all game, and kept getting up. He made some key throws on what should have been the game winning drive near the end of regulation.
 
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NFBuck said:
I agree with most of this, but I REALLY doubt PSU jumps UT/USC. My prediction for the final polls when all is said and done...

1. Texas
2. Southern Cal
3. Penn St.
4. Ohio St.
Not necessarily a true reflection of which teams were playing the best as the season came to a close, but like Scooter said...the playoff start in August.
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I can see OSU jumping PSU. OSU beat ND in convincing fashion. Normally, voters would simply look at the score, but in this particular game, it being the only game on in it's time slot, a lot of voters watched it and know the game wasn't nearly as close as the score. PSU struggled with a team that was an 8 point dog and along with WVU "shouldn't have been there" (as it turns out, both "should have" if the results of their games are any indication)

Anyway, I can see some voters taking the "Who's the best team NOW" approach, and it's pretty clear OSU is the better team to PSU at the moment.

All that said, I find it hard to put OSU in front of PSU since they did beat OSU head to head and have a better record.
 
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