FLORIDA STATE COACH Mike Norvell surveyed the scene from a raised platform near the end zone, hoping to find his wife and daughter among the fans that had flooded the field like a tidal wave.
Norvell quickly scanned the crowd. Just steps away, quarterback Tommy Castellanos was riding on the back of right tackle Micah Pettus, high-fiving everyone around him, as he fought to make his way to the locker room.
Castellanos ended up being right, after all. Alabama could not stop him.