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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- The main problem for No. 1 Florida
State on Saturday was staying interested for four quarters after
its lightning-quick start.
The Seminoles (4-0, 3-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) put this one
away early, scoring four touchdowns before the first quarter was
half over en route to a 42-10 victory over North Carolina.
It was Florida State's fastest start in its seven-plus seasons
in the ACC.
|  | | Florida State's Peter Warrick races 75 yards for a punt-return touchdown as North Carolina's Kevin Knight gives chase. |
"It looked like in the first quarter they simply were not going
to be able to stop us," Seminoles coach Bobby Bowden said. "Then
we substituted a lot of people and we lost continuity."
Bowden played a whopping 52 players in the first quarter and 70
in the game.
"As soon as we started substituting the engine cut off,"
Bowden said of his offense. "We just shut down and never could get
the thing cranking again."
It's a good thing for the Tar Heels (1-2), who are off to their
first 0-2 ACC start in a decade with games at Clemson and No. 10
Georgia Tech next on the schedule.
Sophomore quarterback Ronald Curry had three passes intercepted,
fumbled once and was sacked five times.
"It was like a nightmare we couldn't wake up from," North
Carolina coach Carl Torbush said. "By the time we got out of it we
were down 28-0. It was just boom, boom, boom, boom."
The Seminoles ran their record to 32-4 as the nation's
top-ranked team and Bowden moved within four victories of 300.
Many of the Florida State players said they wanted to prove a
point with a quick start.
"Nobody (in the country) is really playing like they're No.
1," said Florida State's star receiver Peter Warrick. "So, we
went out there with an attitude that we've going to play like No. 1
today."
Tailback Travis Minor, who scored twice, agreed.
"We wanted to come out and set ourselves apart from everybody
else," Minor said. "You know how it is with people saying we have
potential but we really haven't reached that potential."
Chris Weinke, who threw for 272 yards, marched the Seminoles 80
yards on their opening drive, completing passes of 28, 20 and 19
yards before Minor scored on a 14-yard run -- the first of his two
first-quarter TDs.
Curry played giveaway on the next two possessions as the Tar
Heels fell into a deep hole against one of the nation's better
defenses.
Three plays after Minor's score, Curry was stripped of the ball
by Jerry Johnson. David Warren recovered at the North Carolina 25
and the Seminoles were in business again. Forty-five seconds later,
Minor was in the end zone on a 5-yard TD run.
Curry's first pass on North Carolina's next series was returned
25 yards for a score by Sean Key, who stepped in front of tight end
Alge Crumpler and raced down the right sideline untouched for a
21-0 lead less than five minutes into the game.
The Tar Heels received a mock cheer from their crowd when Curry
finally completed a pass for a first down, but the drive stalled
and more bad news was on the way.
Warrick, Florida State's flashy receiver and equally elusive
return man, raced 75 yards with a punt return for a score, helping
his cause in the Heisman Trophy race.
"You have to have 10 great guys blocking for you," Warrick
said of his long return. "Those 10 guys did the job and I thank
them for it."
It was the first time a team had scored four TDs against the Tar
Heels in a quarter since Florida in 1969.
"That would have been a good time for them to crumble, but they
kept fighting and matched us from then on," Bowden said of the Tar
Heels.
North Carolina picked up the pace and closed to 28-3 on a
36-yard field goal, but allowed the Seminoles to strike quickly
again at the end of the half.
Weinke drove Florida State 92 yards in 90 seconds, capping the
drive with a 25-yard pass to former walk-on and fourth-string
receiver Atrews Bell.
Florida State intercepted a third pass off Curry on North
Carolina's opening possession of the second half, and Warrick's
spectacular 28-yard catch over a defender set up a 1-yard run by
backup quarterback Marcus Outzen.
"You can't expect to spot the No. 1 team in the country 28
points and then just come back on them," Curry said. "Florida
State did everything we expected and more."
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 Peter Warrick returns the punt 75 yards for a touchdown.
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Travis Minor busts it up the middle for the touchdown.
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Sean Key puts six on the board after intercepting a Ronald Curry pass.
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