I'm not happy at all. I'm still thinking about those games against USC, UCLA and Stanford. For 30 seconds after the match I was satisfied. After this interview, I'm back to work.

If he could win eight games a year ... he'd be a miracle worker. If he can get into a BCS bowl game ... that'd be magnificent.

They're not measuring their fingers for rings yet, let's put it that way. They have me in check, and believe me, I have them in check.

We learned that we can compete at a high level. But we can never take our eyes off the prize and have a mental lapse for two, three minutes.

Essentially these last six games we've played them thinking if we lost, we're done. We needed a win. [Thursday] was not anything new. For the last couple of weeks we haven't worried about what other teams are doing.

He's a tough little kid, there's a lot to like. These games down the stretch are hard to win.