Nebraska Defensive Back Marques Buford Jr. Pre-Ohio State Press Conference

On the emotion after the loss
“I’ve flushed it. It happened. Stuff like that happens. There’s nothing I can do to go back and change anything that happened. The only thing that I can do personally, as a leader on this team, is to make sure that every guy on that roster is ready for the upcoming game this week.”

On avoiding the outside noise
“Honestly, I feel like we run a pretty tight ship around here as far as our relationship with each other and what we focus on on a day to day basis. To us, nothing outside of this building matters. We do everything for each other, we do everything for our coaches. Those are the only opinions that anybody on this team should ever be worried about. Nobody that’s outside criticizing is with us every day, but we’re with each other every day, all day. It’s not really blocking it out as much as, it doesn’t even get to us. We’re just focused on being us and being better for each other.”

On Rhule’s comments about playing not to lose
“I agree with him 100%. It happened. That’s just another lesson that we can take away from this past weekend to make ourselves better for the rest of the games that we have this year.”