Jay Higgins
Iowa Linebacker

On emotions of win
“I’m just really happy with how we fought. I feel like we displayed that all year. You know, the last regular season game, I think this one's really just a definition of the Iowa football way. I felt like our team, we were looking for solutions the whole game and it helped us in the end.”

On Sebastian Castro
“When you have somebody like (Sebastian) Castro who can change the game every time he touches somebody with the ball, we're going to try to get him to the ball any time we can. And a lot of times it wasn't pressure, but just Castro being really aggressive. So I mean, we know how Castro plays. We appreciate that, and when you have a guy like that who can make plays you kind of just let him do what he does.”

On reaching 10 wins
“I mean there's not a lot of Iowa teams that can say they had a 10 win regular season with seven wins in the Big Ten, so we understood what we had at stake in this game. Nebraska, they competed. We knew we were going to get their best game because of what was at stake for them with bowl eligibility. They always play us tough so we knew what we signed up for and I feel like we did a good job understanding the emotions. Everybody came out healthy and this just gives us momentum for next week.