TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Wearing baggy blue jeans and a red golf shirt, Heisman Trophy hopeful Peter Warrick could only pace the Florida State sideline and cheer on his teammates.

	Florida State's Tommy Polley gets a grip on Miami QB Kenny Kelly.

Suspended indefinitely after his arrest on a grand theft charge, the All-American wide receiver went on national TV and apologized, then gave the Seminoles a pregame pep talk.

It worked, but it took awhile.

Chris Weinke connected with 11 different receivers for 332 yards and two touchdowns Saturday as No. 1 Florida State overcame a sloppy first half for a 31-21 victory over Miami (No. 21 ESPN/USA Today, No. 19 AP).

"They did what I wanted them to. They stepped up," Warrick said as he was hurried off the field by security guards. "They showed we're the No. 1 team in the nation."

Warrick's fellow wide receivers were a big reason. Germaine Stringer, a fifth-year senior with just 12 catches before Saturday, had three for 80 yards, including a 48-yarder 3:47 into the game.

And Ron Dugans came through with five grabs for 80 yards, including a 54-yarder that set up Travis Minor's clinching 2-yard touchdown with 9:55 left in the game.

"I don't want to talk about Peter at all," said Weinke, who scrambled his way to 23 completions in 34 attempts. "This football team showed up and played and won. They got the job done."

Florida State (6-0) has now beaten Miami (2-3) five years in a row, and in doing so the Seminoles won their 27th straight at Doak Campbell Stadium and 44th without a loss. Both streaks are the longest among major colleges.

"You were never sure how well we would play after all the things we went through," Seminoles coach Bobby Bowden said after gaining career win No. 298. "The only thing that blew my mind was he way they rolled up and down the field against us in the first half."

Seminoles take flight

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- No. 9 is usually what Florida State opponents fear most. But with star WR Peter Warrick suspended following last week's arrest and felony theft charge, Seminoles QB Chris Weinke gave defenses another number to worry about -- 11. That's the number of receivers who caught passes from the 27-year-old quarterback in FSU's 31-21 win over Miami. Coach Bobby Bowden said the diversity gives opponents a different type of headache. Miami was merely the first team to experience that special brand of Bowden migraine. "This presents more challenges than when Warrick is in there," Bowden said. "The difference is what these receivers do after the catch, compared to Pete. "That's when Pete is dangerous -- after he catches it." In the first quarter alone, seven different Seminoles caught a pass: Anquan Boldin, Marvin Minnis, Travis Minor, Germaine Stringer, Ron Dugans, Robert Morgan and Jeff Chaney. Stringer's 48-yard TD catch in the first quarter opened the scoring and settled the FSU offense. "I was thinking 'this is my time now that Pete's out,'" said Stringer, who came into the season with two career TDs. "I knew I was next in line ... It's time for us to make plays now and I think we did that." Dugans has played the role of odd-man out to Warrick and Lavernues Coles. But with Warrick on the sidelines and Coles kicked off, he finished with five catches for 80 yards and a TD. Dugans now becomes the Seminoles' big-play target, but as evidenced by Saturday's balanced aerial attack, Warrick's absence is one that can be overcome. Bowden has a stable of athletes like Stringer ready to break through. FSU defensive backs who face the 5-11, 185-pound senior every day consider him Warrick-like. "He's fast and extremely elusive and he can make you look silly, just like Pete can," said cornerback Cookie Thomas. "G-String (Stringer) is lethal." -- Bruce Feldman ESPN The Magazine

Miami scored all its points in a 21-21 first half, with Kenny Kelly throwing TD passes of 8 yards to Reggie Wayne and 80 and 14 yards to Santana Moss. The Hurricanes finished with 448 yards, but were held to 166 in the second half by a defense that almost gave away the game in the opening 30 minutes.

"I thought our kids spilled their guts and played as hard as we've probably played this year," Miami coach Butch Davis said.

With the Seminoles ahead 24-21 after Sebastian Janikowski's 38-yard field goal midway through the third quarter, Weinke led the Seminoles on a game-clinching 97-yard drive. After Dugans' 54-yard gain to the Miami 30, FSU moved down to the 13, when Miami's Leonard Myers was called for pass interference in the end zone against Dugans.

On the next play, from the Miami 3, Minor powered into the end zone and Florida State kept its national title hopes alive as 80,976 fans broke into the Seminole War Chant.

Minor finished with 25 carries for 146 yards. Kelly was sensational, hitting 27 of 41 passes for 370 yards. Moss finished with nine catches for 180 yards.

Bowden gave Weinke credit for taking a leadership role usually reserved for Warrick, who coined this year's theme that appears on the front of the Seminoles practice T-shirts: "TEAM -- It's not about me."

"He looked serious when he was practicing," Bowden said. "He was stepping forward and making statements that I hadn't seen him making, such as 'Let's do this!"'

The Seminoles opened a 7-0 lead on Weinke's hookup with Stringer, one of two replacements for Warrick, caught his 48-yard TD pass just 3:47 into the game. He beat Myers on a post pattern, caught the ball in stride at the 13 and scored untouched. When he returned to the bench, he was greeted by a towel-waving Warrick.

"I knew I had to step up," Stringer said. "With Pete out, I knew I was next in line."

Added Dugans: "When he caught that one, it got the butterflies out of all the receivers and gave all of us a lift."

Miami, the last team to beat Florida State at Doak Campbell (in 1991), wasted little time in pulling even.

Kelly threw an 8-yard scoring pass to Wayne 3:08 later, the football sailing over the head of cornerback Mario Edwards in the left corner of the end zone and into the Hurricane receiver's arms.

The Seminoles moved ahead 14-7, on Jeff Chaney's 3-yard TD run, and the Hurricanes responded on Kelly's 80-yard TD pass to Moss.

Florida State lost a scoring chance late in the first quarter when Dan Kendra fumbled at the Miami 10 and the Hurricanes Al Blades recovered.

Miami took a 21-14 lead after an 89-yard march, with Kelly hitting Moss on a 6-yard TD, with Edwards again the beaten defender in the end zone. This time it was the Seminoles turn to even the score, with Weinke finding tight end Ryan Sprague behind Miami's linebackers on an 18-yard scoring pass.

"You have to give Florida State credit," Kelly said. "We got off just exactly as we wanted to. We could have won this game."

Moments before kickoff, both teams had to be restrained from going at each other at midfield. One of the Miami players shouted something to a Florida State player, and both teams gathered near midfield, each forming a huge circle. All the players began jumping up and down in unison, jawing at each other, before coaches came over and broke things up.