Yeah, there's a lot of hype to this game, national attention, whatever. In the end, you can't see the cameras on the field. You just play. You see the guy across from you and your teammates and you have to play well, play hard.

It was just a tough time, and there's an uneasy feeling you get when you don't know what's going on. The unease crept around our program for a good two or three years.

He's a great athlete who has turned himself into a great quarterback.

He's our guy. It's a confidence boost for our team knowing we're not trying to figure out who the quarterback is from one series to the next.

The Husky community has been searching for a Don James replacement, and this is the closest they've come to finding someone with that style of running a team.

I feel like we are getting more movement up front this year, but obviously we are not getting it to the point that the backs are comfortable to ram it in there. It's a trust relationship between the line and the running backs. He's got to trust that the holes will be there, and we've got to trust that when the holes are there he's going to hit them.