On potentially replicating a grind-it-out win over Penn State after doing so against Georgia
All I know is that this upcoming opponent does a heck of a job on defense and their offense creates challenges. They run the ball. Probably built similar to us in terms of the way they’ve had success. They don’t run the quarterback as much as we have.
Each week, it’s what does it take to win? (Georgia) was probably the best defense we’ve seen all year. I don’t care about stats, I’m just telling you about personnel. That was a really good defense and we knew we weren’t going to be able to just have 400 yards of offense. We had to be really smart and take care of the football. We knew we wanted to run the ball no matter what it and it was a defense that stops the run, but we had to find ways to get positive running yards.
That means, sometimes, running (quarterback Riley Leonard). We knew we had to take care of the football and they did that. Defensively, we had to stop the run and that was the number one thing we did defensively. We stopped the run. In my heart I said, ‘passing yards aren’t going to beat us this game, it’s rushing yards.’ We did a really good job of that defensively.
Our special teams were superior. Special teams was excellent. (Kicker Mitch Jeter) was great. There were positives in all those phases, but that was the formula for that game. We haven’t, yet, defined the keys to victory for this game, but, for certain, it’s going to be something similar to what it was last game against this team.
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