It's big. It's something we talked about after the USC game -- finishing our successful season on a good, positive note. Now the people still in our program have something to shoot for.

Then we reduced it even further, let's get one positive play and then start getting the engine going in a positive fashion.

His ankle is really sore. Playing on that surface probably made it more significant.

Our defense was on the field too long. We played catch up with our offense and that was a difficult task.

Given our lack of success we've had against Washington State ... there's a lot of focus and motivation to continue the things that we are doing. This is a big road test, our first road test of the season.

It's more significant because from here on the games get bigger. We finished non-conference 3-0 with a win over a ranked team. We treat every week as championship week. Our next game against Washington is another big week. We treat each opponent the same, we want to go out there and put it all on the line.