This is a fantastic and improved football team; the impact of the head coach is obvious,

History has shown we're a really good second-half football team and particularly strong in the fourth quarter. We count on that.

There's no question that as much pressure as can be generated in college football is surrounding Matt. He's marvelous at dealing with it, but he's just a kid, too. He's got his times when he'd much rather be outside all of the attention, but that's just life and that's what it is.

Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.

He almost didn't come out. He was unsure. I think he wanted to wrestle, but he's a really good football player and I think he felt a little bit of pressure to focus on one sport.

They've got a really good football team. Today we got beat by the strength of an older, more experienced football team. They run through tackles on offense and come at you downhill. On defense, they have a lot of speed on the outside and pressured our young players.