Bo Pelini Postgame Quotes

Nebraska 56, Washington 21
Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010
Husky Stadium (Seattle, Wash.)

General thoughts on the game
"Coming into a hostile environment, I thought it was a good step for our football team. I thought it'd be a nice test for us, going against a good football team on the road. It's a tough environment to play in and I thought our guys handled it well. I thought it was a pretty full effort by our football team. I liked their approach. Like I just told them, there's still a lot more out there for us, there's still a lot for us to clean up. We have a long way to go as a football team but this was a good step along the way."

On how his offense played in this game
"I thought we executed our game plan well, from start to finish, on the offense. We have some things we need to clean up, still with a couple penalties, false starts, and things where we didn't handle the noise as well as we need to. Obviously, we laid the ball on the ground a couple times, about as many as we did last week. Still, one's too many. But I thought, that really helped our football team to get off to a good start, get some momentum going, kind of helped them take the crowd out of it."

On what gave his team the advantage
"We mixed it up pretty good on them. We just executed our game plan. Our guys did well, I thought they covered well, I thought we had a good push up front. For the most part, we kept them in the pocket, which was good because these are obviously really athletic guys. I just thought our guys did a good job of playing their responsibilities and playing pretty good disciplined football."

On how it felt to have so many Nebraska fans come for the game
"We talked to the players and said we need to make sure and thank those fans. That was pretty special. I don't know how many we had here, probably 20-30,000 fans. I heard a comment behind me on the first bus when we were coming in, when we saw all that red, as we were coming into the stadium, and they said 'Is this a home game?' That just goes to show you the kind of support we get. It's great. It helps offset the Washington crowd which, man, it's loud. At the start of the football game, that place was loud. We've got great fans here and bringing that many people, I think, shows a statement about what Nebraska football is all about."