IN QUOTES

“Maybe we should sprain his thumb every Thursday. I thought it was a courageous effort on his part.”

HAL MUMME

Kentucky coach on freshman quarterback Jared Lorenzen, who fought through injury to pass for a school-record 528 yards in a 34-30 loss to Georgia

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“We know where we need to be to beat the best team in the country. You may not see it on the field, but internally we’ve got some things going that make us feel real good about the program.”

KEVIN STEELE

Baylor coach on the positives that perhaps only he noticed after a 59-0 loss to No. 1 Nebraska in which his team had only 84 total yards

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“I’d like to apologize. Sometimes it looked like we weren’t being coached. This is one of the most disappointing losses for me as a coach.”

WOODY WIDENHOFER

Vanderbilt coach after his team’s loss to No. 18 South Carolina, which dropped his record to 3-26 in SEC games

ETC.

Georgia Tech wide receiver Kelly Campbell had six catches for 127 yards, moving up to a tie for second on Tech’s career list in receptions (115) and third in receiving yards (1,807). . . . Southern Utah quarterback Matt Cannon ran for 262 yards in a 62-24 win over Idaho State, breaking the NCAA Division I-AA record for career rushing yards by a quarterback with 4,146. The old record was 3,957 yards by Western Kentucky’s Willie Taggart. . . . Yale’s Eric Johnson set a school record for career reception yards. He had 172 on 13 catches against Pennsylvania for 1,712 in his career, eclipsing the 1,554 mark set a 12 years ago by John Spagnola.