It looked like we might finish third or fourth. Now I feel there's nobody in the conference that we can't beat. I think it's wide open.

Nobody ever tries to be third or fourth [on the depth chart]. You try to be third or fourth, you're already a loser. If you ask me, every time I'm out there I'm trying to take the No. 1 position.

It's very sad to think last year you won the division, and this year you finish third or fourth.

Our game plan is first year, a .500 season. Second year, a conference championship. Third year, undefeated. Fourth, a national championship. And by the fifth year, we'll be on probation, of course.

I think realistically our goal is to finish .500 (in the conference). At the same moment, I don't think there's a doubt in anyone's mind we can run the table in the rest of these games. Even though we play LSU and Tennessee, just watching film on them, they're very beatable.

It all unraveled in the second. They got their third goal, and then the fourth one and now it's just kind of beside ourselves. We just have to learn from this and not make any more of it than what it was and that was a one game defeat, all be it in an important game at a critical time of the year. But all it is one game.