Florida State Is Runaway No. 1

Florida State is perfectly comfortable at No. 1.

The Seminoles (11-0) easily retained the top spot in the Associated Press Top 25 poll Sunday after completing their fourth perfect regular season with a 30-23 victory over Florida.

Virginia Tech (10-0) held firm at No. 2 with a 62-7 victory over Temple on Saturday, and Nebraska moved to No. 3, replacing the Gators (9-2), who fell to No. 5.

Wisconsin (9-2), headed for the Rose Bowl to play Pacific 10 Conference champion Stanford, also improved one spot to No. 4, followed by Florida, No. 6 Tennessee, No. 7 Texas, No. 8 Alabama, No. 9 Kansas State and No. 10 Michigan.

Florida State, set to play for a national title in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 4, is trying to become the first team to go wire-to-wire in the AP poll.

Florida State received 66 first-place votes and 1,746 points from the 70 sports writers and broadcasters on the AP panel.

Virginia Tech, which plays Boston College on Friday, had four first-place votes and 1,681 points; Nebraska, at Colorado on Friday, had 1,607 points.

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Dan Robinson doesn’t put much stock in records, although he now holds almost every Hawaii passing mark.

“You just got to do whatever you got to do,” Robinson said after throwing five touchdowns and running for a sixth in a 48-41 victory over Navy (4-7) Saturday night at Honolulu.

Robinson passed for 530 yards, a single-game record for Hawaii (8-3), one of 11 records he set in the victory.

Robinson’s 26-yard scoring strike to Dwight Carter with 5:21 left was the difference.

Robinson became Hawaii’s all-time career passing leader with 5,784 yards in 24 games, shattering Garrett Gabriel’s mark of 5,631 yards in 34 games.

The senior from Utah also set records with 27 passing touchdowns in a season, most points in a season with 192, most touchdowns in a game with six and most consecutive games of 200 yards passing with 10.

The only one that matters to Robinson, however, is the team record.

The win gave the Rainbow Warriors and first-year Coach June Jones the greatest turnaround in NCAA history for a team that went winless the previous season. Hawaii, 0-12 in 1998, surpassed the 1980 Florida team, which won seven regular season games after going 0-10-1 in 1979.