We talked all week that in order to beat [an option offense], you have to be assignment perfect.

Peter has shown through spring football, the summer and the early fall, he has been remarkably consistent with his distance. We're excited about that and keeping him in the groove.

I'm very pleased with him. Red-shirt freshmen will have good games and bad ones. We have to live with it.

It's very important we stay in touch with them, in that they are a visual reminder. But the most important thing we can do [to build support] is to win games.

He can execute the option game in all its forms. He's a very dangerous player. He can go the distance or make the necessary decision to pitch it out to the other guy.

It's been pretty challenging. All you can do is play whatever's there on the schedule. Although it doesn't look like it from the scores, I believe we have gotten better.