When you become No. 1 and everybody talks about how much you're going to kill the other team and they've done nothing but lose and you're on the road, it's at night and it's cold, it's a trap game.

Last year's team had some of this. This year's team hasn't had this yet. They anticipated it at Ohio State, but this was a great learning experience for us and one that will help us the rest of the way.

If you cannot have your best game out there and still score 52 points, that just shows you this team has a chance to be really special,

It was really surreal, when you're sitting there in the fourth quarter and you're down by two scores to a team who had won 34 straight game and still think you're going to win. We never ever really thought we would lose the ballgame.

Mr. Allen saved this franchise. I was on the team in 1996 when we had basically packed our bags and moved down to Anaheim [California]. He stepped in when approached by city officials to put a bid up to purchase the team and take us in a different direction. That's exactly what he has done.

And during the time when I was getting a lot of criticism and the team wasn't doing so well, I think it would have been much harder for me if I was just sat at home on my own. But when you've got a beautiful daughter to take care of, you don't even think about it.