I don't know if we've ever had a game quite like this one. Even though we had scored a lot of points, our offense hadn't really been on the field and our defense had been on the field the whole time. And they did a great job of reversing the momentum.

I just didn't think we were rushing the ball as well as we could have. UCLA seemed to have made a lot of good adjustments against our running game.

It was one of those days. You can be a quarterback or a kicker or a major-league pitcher. Those are guys that just have bad days.

They have so many weapons, ... You could hand us their playbook and it wouldn't help.

The most important thing a quarterback can do is walk in the huddle and make 10 guys better. He makes more than 10 guys better.

I've made clear my commitment to Northwestern. I'm not a 1-800 guy, calling everybody. Does everybody have a price? Sure. But there's a value in the kind of kids I get to coach, the institution I represent, where I live. I don't know if there's a better job.

We just need to get one more point than them. Heck, if it's 7-6 and we win, I'm happy with that.

We've been rated pretty low before, and I don't get caught up in them. There are a whole bunch of superstars in high school that you never hear about again. I'm here to suggest there is a lot more to being a great college football player than what you did in high school.

Fifty points looks bad, but we've been in that kind of game all year long. And we were in that game again today.

We need to discover who we are, get closer to what Northwestern needs to be this year.