Tim Tebow, No. 1 Florida stay perfect with 37-10 victory

Tim Tebow's eye black is waterproof.

His perfect season is starting to look shatterproof.

Tebow accounted for 5 touchdowns in his home finale, a triumphant farewell that included tears on the field and in the stands, and top-ranked Florida thumped rival Florida State 37-10 Saturday for its sixth consecutive victory in the series.

"I don't want to say goodbye," coach Urban Meyer said. "The good thing is we're not done. The negative is we're done in this great stadium."

The Gators stayed unbeaten heading into next week's Southeastern Conference showdown against No. 2 Alabama, extended the nation's longest winning streak to 22 games and improved to 12-0 for just the second time in school.

Tebow may have even secured a third consecutive trip to New York for the Heisman Trophy presentation. He gets one more chance to impress on the big stage next week in Atlanta against the Crimson Tide with a trip to the national championship game on the line.

The Seminoles (6-6) lost for the second time in six games, and longtime coach Bobby Bowden's likely finale at Florida Field showed exactly why some FSU faithful are urging him to retire: Florida outplayed its in-state rival at every position.

Bowden said he has some "soul-searching" to do before making a decision about his future at Florida State.

"I want to coach next year, but let me say I want to go home and do some soul-searching," said Bowden, who has 388 career victories, second most in major college football. "I've got to run this thing through my mind a few times."

It might be difficult to keep images of Tebow embarrassing his defense again out of those thoughts. Tebow completed 17 of 21 passes for 221 yards. He also ran 15 times for 90 yards against a defense that might be Bowden's worst in 34 seasons.

TCU 51, New Mexico 10: Bring on any opponent for TCU. The undefeated Horned Frogs are going to bust into the BCS for the first time. The only question left is where are they headed and who will they play.

"We can play with anybody," coach Gary Patterson said after host TCU wrapped its first undefeated regular season in 71 years.

"We're going to look forward to the challenge, we'll find out what that's going to be, and we're going to get ready for it. - This team can play with a lot of people, and not just this year."

Hard to argue after the fourth-ranked Horned Frogs improved to 12-0 with a 51-10 victory over New Mexico (1-11) - their seventh straight win by at least 27 points, a stretch including BYU and Utah, last year's BCS buster.

While there should be no question about if TCU will be part of the Bowl Championship Series, the Frogs have to wait another week to make travel plans.

Representatives from the Fiesta, Orange and Sugar bowls were in attendance.

"They're sure way up there," said Alan Young, the Fiesta Bowl board chairman. "It's an easy sell to our board of directors. - TCU is right in the middle of our mix."

After some near-misses in the past, including a 10-0 start in 2003 and a 1-loss season two years after that, TCU is higher in the BCS standings than any team from a conference without an automatic bid has ever been this late in the season. The Frogs are fourth behind Florida, Alabama and Texas.

"Well, we finally did it," Patterson said to open his postgame news conference.

Andy Dalton matched a career high with 4 touchdown passes, 2 to Antoine Hicks in a 12-second span that put TCU up 30-0 early in the second quarter. Dalton already had run for a score.

As the final seconds ticked off the clock, fans chanted "B-C-S! B-C-S!" They then stormed the field to celebrate, creating a sea of purple around a riser in the middle of the field where a celebratory cooler shower-drenched Patterson accepted the Mountain West Conference championship trophy.

Georgia 30, Georgia Tech 24: Georgia took a page out of Georgia Tech's playbook, rushing for 339 yards to upset the seventh-ranked Yellow Jackets at Atlanta and put a real damper on the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game.

Washaun Ealey rushed for 183 yards, while Caleb King rambled for 166 yards and 2 touchdowns as the Bulldogs (7-5) reclaimed state bragging rights in a disappointing year and handed Georgia Tech (10-2) a huge setback in what has been its best season in nearly two decades.

Georgia Tech's loss completed a dismal day for the two teams that will meet next week in Tampa, Fla., for the ACC title. Earlier, Clemson was blown out by South Carolina 34-17.