So that's what we learned. That's what we learned. And I think Marcus Freeman learned a lot. I think he learned a lot from this team. I think the coaches have invaluable information from the film, getting ready to prepare for Northern Illinois as they come into a Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday. And Marcus Freeman, he met with the media on Monday. And Coach Freeman was elated, but this is what he said about the game and his overall thoughts.

Check it out, ladies and gents.

Team win in a great environment on Saturday.

A lot of individuals did some really good things as you watch back and evaluate film, but I'm most proud of how we played complimentary football.

It was important to play complimentary football when two really good teams go at it.

And we want to battle a field position, which was a major key for us, and then we want to turn over margin.

Those two things were vital for us to have success on Saturday. The defense played really well.

Two turnovers were huge and holding A&M to field goals two out of those three

times when they were in our territory was key and that was something we emphasized

and offensively to not make a crucial

mistake versus a really, really good defense was key. We had to protect the football and we did

that by not turning the ball over and being effective offensively. To finish the fourth quarter with

an eight play, 85 yard TD drive was that was the difference right

we knew it was going to be a battle the entire game and um that's really the the moment where we were

able to say okay we we have this we got the game and we did a good job defensively following that

and then we finished with the field goal um you know Mitch special teams wise with Mitch going three for three, that was that was major. That was major and then you know I thought our kickoff coverage did the kickoff coverage unit did a really good job of pinning them back a couple of times and those points are all are all key when you talk about winning the

battle of field position and in and that was they all contribute to that you the

player to game on offense was Riley Leonard defense was Xavier watch and

in special teams was Mitch Jeter and then the special sorry about that the scout

players of the week were on offense,

Justin Fisher, on defense Kobe on UK, and special teams was Cam Williams.

Yeah, I don't know about that offensive player at the game.

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