Gene is a great guy, a great young coach. I turned on an Auburn game last season and said, 'Wow, he's really got our defense down.' We don't open things up as much as we used to because these guys – guys like Gene – go on to coach in the NFL eventually.

That's all we heard since the Auburn game. Everybody wanted to forget about our nine wins to start the season. I don't care what people say about me, but the fact we're going out with the Cotton Bowl championship and a 10-2 record, that shows we've got this program headed in the right direction. That's a great way to go.

We knew they were going to try to take Calvin out of the game. Same as last week with Auburn.

It was a really slow game. If it weren't for all of the second shots that Auburn had, it wouldn't have ended the way it did.

We started on that in the (post-game) Auburn locker room.

That's Coach Williams. He made a huge adjustment, and it turned the game around for us. Switching to zone probably made a big difference in the game, and that's why he's so good.