Q. Jett, what gave you the confidence to control the offense today?

JETT DUFFEY: I feel like I always have the confidence, but just believing in my coach, believing in my teammates. You know, my teammates went out there and fought their butts off and did what they needed to do.

Q. At some point can you tell you're kind of in a rhythm, and if so, at what point in this game did you get that feeling?

JETT DUFFEY: At the beginning of every game, you want to get in that rhythm to where you're just playing, you're not thinking. You're just going through everything that you've practiced all week. During this game I just felt confident from the beginning. From the get-go I felt confident in our game plan, I felt confident in my teammates.

Q. How big was that first touchdown, to kind of get in the end zone?

JETT DUFFEY: Oh, it felt great. You know, the first touchdown is always great. It felt really good.

Q. Can you put into words what you think when you see pressure coming and you play with such --

JETT DUFFEY: Just react, don't think, because once you start thinking, like I said, you get out of your rhythm, you get out of your game, so I just react.

Q. What kind of presence has Alan Bowman been just in preparation all season?

JETT DUFFEY: We all like to help each other out. You know, whenever we see something, we give our little tidbits. He's a great influence, great leader. He was out there rallying the guys, rallying the defense, rallying the offense, so he's been a great influence.

Q. Bruffy said last week he obviously struggled on the offensive line, the offensive line had struggles. Anything they improved?

JETT DUFFEY: First off, Bruffy, he is amazing. He's hard on himself. But the O-line, they blocked their butts off. They did everything that they were supposed to do. Even whenever they told me sorry, I was like, hey, man, it's all good. We're out here fighting, we're out here battling. I've got them like they've got me.

Q. What was your message to them?

JETT DUFFEY: I was just telling them I love them. Oh, at the end of the game? Oh, I was just telling them we just need one more. We just need to keep fighting, keep pushing and just keep going. Game is not over.

Q. How about the aggressiveness of the coaching today? Just seemed like you guys threw the ball downfield more, took some chances on 4th down, went for a fake field goal. Does that inspire you guys as a team?

JETT DUFFEY: Oh, yes, that really inspires us. We just want to be aggressive, we want to attack. We never want to run from everyone, we just want to keep pushing.

Q. How much of a difference was it this week that you were named the starter and you got all the reps?

JETT DUFFEY: It wasn't different. Every day I attack the field like I'm the starter. Doesn't matter if I'm first, second or third. I attack and I do what I'm supposed to do. I focus every single rep whether I'm in or not, so it didn't feel any different.

Q. What did you kind of show the outside and maybe the doubters with this performance today?

JETT DUFFEY: I'm not sure. You know, we just focus on who we're playing, we focus on our opponent, and that's about it. You know, we don't really focus on the outside noise, the praise or the hate, like you like to say. We're just here to do our thing, that's all.

Q. How are you going to celebrate this one before you move on to Baylor?

JETT DUFFEY: You know, I'm giving the team a day. I'm giving them a day to celebrate, but right now honestly I'm focused on our next game.

Q. How much does it say about the team that after what happened last week you were able to respond and come out to a fast start?

JETT DUFFEY: Oh, we're relentless. Just because we take a loss doesn't mean we're going to take many losses. We just fight and focus on the next game.

Q. The way the defense was playing early, what kind of a boost did that give your confidence, not only the offense but the entire team?

JETT DUFFEY: Oh, that gave a tremendous boost. Our defense went out there and held the game for us. We weren't executing properly, so we got kind of back a little bit, but they were out there and they were doing their thing for us, and honestly we all really appreciated that. They gave us that fire, they gave us that boost that we needed.

Q. Did you know going into the game or did you expect that you'd have the opportunity to take as many deep shots down the field as you took today?

JETT DUFFEY: Oh, yes, we love to attack. That was in the game plan. That was something we practiced on all week. So I trusted in Coach Yost to call the plays when the plays needed to be called, and he trusted me to execute.

Q. How much faith do you have in your guys go up and get it?

JETT DUFFEY: Oh, 100 percent faith. As the quarterback, every decision is up to me. If the ball leaves my hands, that is my decision. So I've got 100 percent trust in them. You know, like they've got 100 percent trust in me that I'm going to put it there when they need it.

Q. What's maybe the difference in this game compared to last year where you made big plays but were susceptible once in a while and turned it over?

JETT DUFFEY: It happens. You know, that happens to every single player. Every player makes a mistake. You just go to the next play at a time. I'm not out there thinking about mistakes, I'm not out there thinking about, oh, I can't do this because once you do that you're taking your foot off the pedal. You just attack.

Q. How do you keep your head up? Last year you were atop the depth chart, this year same thing. You start off, you've played both seasons. How do you keep your head up?

JETT DUFFEY: Just attack every day the same. Like I said, I love this game. I love this team. I love everything about this program. So I just attack every single day and give my all no matter what position I'm in.

Q. Since a couple of the other quarterbacks are hurt, since Maverick and Alan are both hurt right now, does that make you be a little more conservative in terms of taking off and running or not?

JETT DUFFEY: No, you just go with the flow of the game. As the quarterback, I need to make sure that I protect my body a little bit. Last season I took some unnecessary shots, but honestly I just play with the flow of the game.

Q. Did Coach Yost kind of teach you to stay in the pocket a little longer, versus last year at times you were sticking in there a little bit longer letting plays develop?

JETT DUFFEY: It's just the flow of the game, honestly. That's all it is. He wants me to use my athleticism whenever need be, but if it's not there, throw the ball. If the throw is not there, then run the ball.

Q. Doug, what kind of defensive game plan was put in that y'all showed maybe something different that they hadn't seen before?

DOUG COLEMAN: I think in the back end what we tried to do is just stop all vertical routes. Like don't give them any explosive plays. Based off the Oklahoma game last week, that's where we were weak at, so we tried to stop all explosive plays on their half.

Q. How important was it for the defensive line to kind of get that push early on?

DOUG COLEMAN: When the D-line gets going, it just helps the back end a whole lot more. Like the more time you give the quarterback to make a play, it kind of hurts us because the longer we have to cover. When they're on that thing, then the back end does good.

Q. How proud are you of the secondary as a whole, especially those young guys, freshmen that came in that played just as well as any starter?

DOUG COLEMAN: They played great to me. I feel like Alex Hogan and Rabbit, what we call him, they stepped in and played great. Alex made a PBU and I was really proud of him.

Q. Did you tell them anything before they kind of come to the game?

DOUG COLEMAN: What I told Alex before he came in, this being his first real game, I told him, like, Bro, just play ball. It's nothing different from what you did in high school. Just play ball.

Q. Did you have a message to the team before running out of the tunnel?

DOUG COLEMAN: Not really. I'm not really a talkative guy.

Q. So who stepped up there and said something?

DOUG COLEMAN: The coach.

Q. What was the locker room like after this? I know a win is a win, but this one seemed somewhat important for you guys?

DOUG COLEMAN: Yeah, it was just full of energy. I liked to see how everybody enjoyed the win, so that's good for us.

Q. How important was it to get off to a fast start?

DOUG COLEMAN: I think it was just something that we had to show the world, like we can play defense at Texas Tech. I think it was just a big statement we had to prove.

Q. Now you kind of put it on tape, how big was that for you guys to get the turnovers -- the first couple weeks you struggled with it.

DOUG COLEMAN: Yeah, we struggled, but we just stayed the course. We knew the turnovers was going to come. We just kept playing our game like the turnovers are going to come, just start doing your job and being in the right place at the right time; turnovers will happen.

Q. After what happened last week, how important was it for you guys to just have a good defensive performance and especially in the secondary, kind of play your game?

DOUG COLEMAN: I think it was really important because what we put out last week is not our defensive identity, and we didn't want that to be our identity for the rest of the season, so we had to come out and put something different on tape.

Q. You mentioned back at Media Day how big it was going to be for you to be able to come up with turnovers. You have five interceptions already. What's allowed you to have the success like that?

DOUG COLEMAN: Well, all my success goes to the D-line, so without the D-line putting pressure on the quarterback and containing him and making him throw inside the pocket, that allows me to make plays on the ball and stay inside tight coverage.

Q. How do you enjoy kind of being in center field, all those balls that are coming your way?

DOUG COLEMAN: Yeah, it just allows me to read the quarterback's eyes basically the whole game, and that's what I'm good at.

Q. You have five interceptions now, but how many do you feel like you could have, because there's been two or three more that --

DOUG COLEMAN: Yeah, I feel I should be sitting at like eight picks on the season right now.

Q. Tylan Wallace had that touchdown at the end, but for most of the game you held him down pretty solidly.

DOUG COLEMAN: That was our game plan going into the game was just stop No. 2 and No. 30. That was the whole objective of the defense was to stop those two.

Q. Are you guys being coached to be a little bit more aggressive maybe than in previous years at defensive back just in terms of receivers getting up in them, that sort of stuff?

DOUG COLEMAN: Yeah, I think going into the game trying to be more aggressive because last week we were playing off of them and giving them too much space, and we wanted to change that, so we pressed them a lot more than we did before.

Q. How much difference do you think that makes just in terms of defensive back play in general?

DOUG COLEMAN: It makes a lot of difference. Like when we play off of teams like to attack us back throwing the screens like you saw today, but once we started coming out playing aggressive, like we could stop those plays in the backfield.

Q. Jordan is another guy who had another great game. What did you see from him?

DOUG COLEMAN: I mean, I see it every day, so I mean, it might be like new to y'all, but Jordan plays like that at practice and every game, and he just makes plays all the time. That's what I expect out of him every time we step on the field.

Q. That stop on the two-point conversion kind of sum up who he is as a player, making big plays in big times?

DOUG COLEMAN: Most definitely. I think Jordan is a great leader on our defense.