Percentages aren't always the best measuring stick for how you're playing.

Those two (teams) will always be the measuring stick. I like playing on the road, period, and being around the big-time atmosphere. It definitely brings out the best in you. Something about it is almost electric.

I wouldn't say this is our measuring stick. We're 7-0. We're the undefeated team.

He's an incredible athlete and a guy whose conditioning really has been a measuring stick for everybody in this league. It is so easy for us to point to Jerry Rice when we are trying to make a strong message with a player who we may not feel is as serious about his game as he should be.

This game is a measuring stick for our program. They've won six national championships and they are what everyone in I-AA aspires to be.

He is going to get stick every game now and the only way he can answer that is by playing like he did at Birmingham,