James Wilder Jr., the nation's top-rated running back, committed to the Florida State Seminoles Wednesday evening during a news conference at Plant High School.
Wilder made his decision public a day after an Internet report surfaced Tuesday afternoon saying the blue-chip prospect would commit to Georgia. Wilder played along with the report by emerging from behind the stage curtains in a black shirt and a red vest.
"It had gotten around that I committed to Georgia and it got on a radio station and it got out on Facebook," Wilder said. "I think that everyone thought I was going to go there when I came out in red and black.
"I already knew three days ago that I was going to go to Florida State."
