Our job right now is to get back to that championship game and to win that game because we know when we win that game, it opens the doors to the playoff and the national championship opportunities.

Clay Helton

Let's see at the end of the year, it’s Game 2, and I have total faith in this staff. I have total faith in the men that are in there, players, coaches. We didn’t play our best tonight, but ... I hope that we look up at the end of the year, and you’re asking the question, ‘Man, that team really improved from that Game 2.’.

Like I told them in the locker room, you never want this to happen ever, but when it’s an early one in the season, you can live through it. But you've got to correct it extremely fast.