COLUMBUS

-- The governor whose team loses the national college championship has a dress code when state leaders get together next year.

If Ohio State beats Miami in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has to wear a Buckeyes jersey at a National Governor's Association meeting in February.

Ohio Gov. Bob Taft will be sporting the Hurricanes' orange and green if Miami wins the championship game Jan. 3 in Tempe, Ariz.

That's the penalty for losing a bet the governors made Friday.

''I think Governor Bush will look very good in scarlet and gray,'' Taft said.

Ohio State, at 13-0, is ranked second in the country. The defending-champion Miami is the top ranked team at 12-0 and has won 34 consecutive games.

''I am pleased Governor Taft is willing to help us celebrate this year's triumph by the Hurricanes,'' Bush said.

Fans selling necklaces

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (AP) -- At least one Ohio State fan went to Tempe, Ariz., with a suitcase full of buckeyes.

Jerry Kerns is selling necklaces strung with the nuts for $8 apiece to fellow Buckeyes fans celebrating Friday's Fiesta Bowl showdown between Ohio State and Miami for the national championship.

For the past five years he's threaded buckeyes from the state tree, considered good luck charms, with scarlet and gray beads. They're sold in a Chillicothe bar and a Columbus sports gift shop.

''I could do it in my sleep,'' Kerns said. ''I've made thousands of them.''

Each necklace is centered by a plastic football that his wife and daughter paint scarlet and gray. They added ''Fiesta Bowl 2003'' for the 270 necklaces they took to Tempe.