TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida State has another conference title and will play in a BCS game. Now the bad news: Star receiver Craphonso Thorpe will miss the rest of the season.

 

Thorpe broke his right leg while blocking on the next-to-last play Saturday. He caught his 10th and 11th touchdown passes of the season in the 50-44 double-overtime victory over North Carolina State.

 

Thorpe had five catches for 76 yards, finishing his season eight yards short of becoming the eighth player in school history to have 1,000 yards receiving.

 

Coach Bobby Bowden visited him Sunday at the hospital and said it is too soon to assess the long-term effects of the injury. Thorpe is also the Atlantic Coast Conference's 100- and 200-meter sprint champion.

 

The Seminoles (9-2, 7-1 ACC, No. 10 ESPN/USA Today, No. 11 AP) are off this weekend before wrapping up the regular season Nov. 29 at Florida.

 

Leon Washington's 12-yard touchdown run capped a wild game Saturday. The win sealed the Seminoles' 11th ACC title in 12 years and the accompanying automatic BCS berth. They are 90-6 against league opponents since joining the conference in 1992.

 

"All the marbles were right there," Bowden said Sunday. "We just made one more play than they did."

 

NC State's Philip Rivers, the nation's second-ranked passer, threw for 422 yards and four touchdowns without an interception, but his final pass went off the fingertips of Jerricho Cotchery.

 

Florida State got the ball needing only a field goal to win, but scored instead on Washington's TD.

 

"There were so many plays in the game that won it," Bowden said. "I don't think we've ever had so many guys contribute to a win."

 

Bowden, major college football's winningest coach with 341 career victories, said the Seminoles would practice just three days this week before a long weekend off in preparation for Florida.

i never realized his name was spelled CRAP-honso

i never realized his name was spelled CRAP-honso

They said on ESPN yesterday that his name was a combination of craig and alphonso so we get Crap-honso Thorpe

bummer

That sucks for FSU. I know he is our best WR, but I won't miss him too much. I think the running game is picking up, and Davis, Stovall and the rest of the WR core switching in and out along side of PK Sams keeps the D guessing.

 

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