On Carson Beck and Stanford’s defensive performance…
“I mean obviously he had a winning performance today, but I didn’t really study him that much this week because I was more focused on their defense and on our quarterbacks. I thought our defense did a pretty good job on him in the first half and contained their offense pretty well, and then they got after us real good in the second half and gave it to us.”
On keeping the game tight in the first half…
“Obviously, we got off to a fast start on offense and had a good drive and execution all the way down. We ran, passed, mixed it up, got in the red zone and made the plays we needed to make. On defense, we just contained them. They couldn’t sustain drives and our defense has been playing really good. Our defense, the last few games against some really good offenses, has come out early and stifled offenses and I felt we did a good job stifling a really good offense in Miami. We weren’t perfect in the run and pass game, but we played them really well in the first half. I give them credit, they came out strong in the second half and gave us all we could handle.”
