"It’ll be over before the half, you give Norm Chow a month to get ready for somebody … "
–Tommy Tuberville

(Auburn Head Coach)

"Stevie comes back, total pass interference, guy is pulling his left arm out, diving catch

hitting the ground, back line of the end zone 50 yards down the field. Just an out-of-sight catch."
—Pete Carroll (on Steve Smith’s second of three TD receptions)

"It’s like Jay-Z says. Get it right, did it different, did it better, did it nice. Did the impossible, then did it twice."
—LenDale White (on back-2-back championships)

"I want to respect them just because I have to play them, but then I watch them on tape and everything, and I realize that

they’re an average team."
–Larry Birdine (Oklahoma Defensive Lineman)

"Oklahoma would have

been the most counterfeit thing in the entire stadium if not for a halftime performance that included Ashlee Simpson."
–Dan Le Batard

(of The Miami Herald)

"No way. I’m going to see if Nicholls State wants to play us.”
—Ed Orgeron (when asked if he would schedule USC when he assumes his duties as head coach at

Mississippi after the Orange Bowl)

"It’s fun to think how it could have been–but we wouldn’t have won any more

games."
—Pete Carroll (on not having Mike Williams this

year)

"We’ve got a really nice team coming back. We’re gonna be hard to beat."
—Pete Carroll (on the 2005 season)

"We did it.

Let’s do it again."
—Reggie Bush (to Norm

Chow)