"We didn't play our best game."

"Part of championship DNA and part of championship mentality is that you just find a way."

"We didn't play our best, but we didn't play poorly."

"You never know how these things are going to play out. ... There are a lot of good players in this league, and they find ways to make plays."

"I've stopped on him so often on my Instagram Reels that he's now part of my algorithm."

"I'll invite him. We'll get him on the plane and out to an (SEC road) game with us."

"We've got a great network of coaches. I lean on all of them. Joni (Taylor) does a great job. I'm excited to see what Mike Earley does. Obviously, Pat Henry and all of his success."

"It's that validation we talk about. Nobody really notices until they notice. ... He has been really, really good for us. I've been really happy with his development."

"For him to impact that game the way he did and make the critical plays that he did, he overshadowed Taurean (York), who had a career-day too."

"He's becoming more of a student of the game. ... Sometimes, you play quarterback so long that you get into a rhythm. For him, it's like, 'Hey, let's elevate this thing.' Let's find the things we don't know."

"He's preparing like a pro. He spends a lot of time with Collin Klein."

"He has been really good about protecting the ball throughout his career. He had a couple get away from him. You watch the film, you evaluate, you learn."

"You just have to get back up there and throw the next throw."

"We haven't done the uniform reveal just yet, so I don't know what the uniforms will be."

"I think a black out would be really good."

"You have to have it be their program. Everyone talks about how you keep this together in the transfer portal era. ... Part of the way you do it is you make your kids extremely proud of their program."

"There's a lot of things I worry about. One of the things I never worry about is where the 12th Man will be on Saturdays. ... They'll be there, giving us an incredible home-field advantage."

"Your fan base is here for you all the time. All the time. They love you. They don't turn their back on you."

"You're very blessed to be at a place where your fan base supports you all the time."

"When you're in college, you don't get to flip your schedule around. You don't get a change in classes. ... We're in a rhythm where we practice in the mornings."

"From our standpoint, we wanted to go in the mornings because the hardest kicks are the 11 o'clocks. ... We like to get the boys up early, get a good breakfast in them and get our practices done in the morning."

"I always know what the analytics say. I know what the goal line is. Then it's a feel for it."

"Things shift and kind of move depending on how I feel in the moment."

"That was my first dive into this high-level, high-profile world of college football. ... How you manage player performance, player psychology and all the things that came through those moments and pressures, I've really appreciated how he handles the psychology."

"We want to be a physical football team. We want to be a team that brings it every single time we step on the field."

"loud and proud" on Saturday night: "It's a big one. We're going to need everybody. Gig 'Em!"