This was really only our fifth game with everybody together this year. We're just now getting into a rhythm. With the (vacation) breaks we had, some players being ineligible and other stuff, we weren't able to put it together before now.

We don't have T-shirts, yet, ... We're in the infancy stage. But you can bet we're working on it.

I don't know how much I'll be looking across at him. I think I'll be looking across at their players more than I will him. But Bobby Bowden is obviously a great football coach. He's won a lot of football games.

I have great respect for Bobby Bowden and what he's done for college football, ... His teams play with enthusiasm. I've coached Florida State kids (in the NFL) and they believe in their program. It's a very competitive program.

It looks like (the team's going backwards), but I don't know if that's part of the deal. I don't know that. It's not looking good right now. I can tell you that. We have to get the offense rolling. We have to. Defense is fighting to hold their own. And to keep pulling like that, the other side has to turn the corner. That's the bottom line.

Our kids are improving every week. We have all kinds of talent, but some days we don't play to our potential and this was one of those days.