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5/3 BAYLOR (6-0, 3-0)? 61, 9/12 TCU?(4-1, 1-1) 58
McCLANE STADIUM ? WACO, TEXAS
OCT. 11, 2014 ? ATTENDANCE: 46,803

Baylor Head Coach Art Briles

On the come from behind win...
"Don't care. I haven't really thought about it, but what this does for us is put a lot of energy and confidence in our team. These are wins that you think about and dream about, but they very seldom happen. We had one back in 2011 at Kansas, we were down 21 points on the road with 11 minutes left in the game. We were down 21 points with 10 minutes left in this game and we were home. I thought our crowd was phenomenal. I am not sure if we win this on the road, but we were not on the raod. It has been 35 days since we have been here so we were due. Our guys deserved it and showed a lot of character and toughness."

On what did he shared with the team...
"They put six minutes on the clock for a reason, and we can go out and play every one of them. It is surprising how games come down to one or two plays, but this game was entirely different. I think there were 40 plays that determined who won the game. We made 21 and they made 19. They are a good football team, they were a hot team, an extremely hot team, and we were not. We kind of just plotted along making things happen. Tonight, we had to step it up a bit and our guys did. We had stops in the fourth quarter, big plays on offense, and a critical special teams play to hit a big field goal for the win."

On this being a statement win...
"In my opinion every win we have is a statement because if you want to be in that conversation [for the playoffs] you have to win them all. It just happened to be that there was just a little more spotlight on this game than some of the others. Our win at Iowa State two weeks ago was a really good win.?We just have to play one week at a time, and every week is a new season."

On the caliber of Baylor...
"We have been pretty good the past two years. We have won 22 out of the past 24 football games. I think that stat itself says it all about the caliber of our football team. It is a fact business and that is a fact."

On if there was any moment he lost faith...
"You do not think that way on the field. I thought Bryce [Petty] played outstanding. Our motto was keep it ugly. We were going to play tough. We were going to play ugly, and whatever happens, happens, but we were going to be a physical football team. That is how we are going to play. We are going to keep grinding and going. Not everything is going to go your way, but it is all about how you respond to it, and I thought Bryce responded well tonight."

Baylor QB Bryce Petty

On his thoughts on the comeback...
"It was a good game. I don't know why I felt it, and I am not saying that I doubted it at any point in time, but I just knew looking at the other guy's faces we were going to comeback in that game. With our offense and the way we play defense, 21 points is not a big deal for us. The belief in each other was outstanding."

On getting a quick strike in the fourth quarter on mostly run plays...
"Every score was a big score. At that point in the game just being able to give it to the big guys upfront, and really how it has been all conference we have leaned on them and our defense. Another great job and win."

On the home field advantage in Waco...
"It was really loud in there the last couple of minutes, which is what homefield advantage is supposed to give you. It supposed to get you rattled and nervous. I thought they did a great job throughout the whole game."

On a win against the No. 9 team in the country...
"It was just a statement game for us. We will probably hear on Monday that TCU was not playing their best, but it was just a statement game for us. It is another chance to prove that we are here to stay. It really does not matter who you put on the other side of the field with us. It was a huge opportunity on a national scale, and we won it again."

On throwing the pick six...
"We spread them out, and really I did not see No. 54 and he made a great play. I am a veteran guy, and I need to know better. I need to make a better play. I need to trust what is going on. We were having good success deeper, and I just have to trust it. It is not on anyone but me, but I have to play better."

Baylor RB Shock Linwood

On how bad he wanted the ball...
"I really wanted the ball. The first half I did not play very well, so going into the locker room I was mad at myself. I just told myself that I had to play better the second half. Whenever I got the ball I was playing with anger, and it paid off out on the field."

Baylor WR Corey Coleman

On the team's attitude during the game...
"Bryce told us to keep our heads up.There are four quaters of football, we were down but there was a lot of time left."

On the different ways he was used during the game...
"It was exciting to have Coach Briles having trust in me. We had Johnny [Jefferson] hurt and Devin [Chafin] hurting, so he told me this week he was going to use me back there. It was exciting and a fun game."

Baylor PK Chris Callahan

On the game-winning field goal...
"The field goal was just a miniscule part to the whole game. I saw that kick go up and how it came off my foot--I knew it was in. I had no doubt. We've struggled this year but we've really worked on getting back to perfection. We're a resilient team. We've talked about that all year."

On his record coming into the game...
"That's just a stat. That's in the past. We've moved on and we forget those."

Baylor RB Devin Chafin

On the comeback...
"That's just Baylor for you. Nobody expected it but everybody knew in the back of their heads that we could still get it. That's just how we play football and who we are."

On the sweetness of this win...
"This one actually tasted great just because of the hype TCU came in with after beating Oklahoma. It was awesome. I mean I wish we could have started off a little better like they did, but it tasted great."

Baylor DL Beau Blackshear

On if he ever gave up on the game...
"There were times where we would start to get down but it would still just be motivating us, making us want to have faith and keep believing in it."

On when he believed they could win the game...
"I knew once we tied it back up and our defense was rolling and no one could get it around us anymore. But that field goal--I couldn't even watch it."

Baylor LB Bryce Hager

On getting back into the game...
"I don't think our defense ever really gave up. We didn't stop believing. It was just one of those things we just knew and had a feeling. When we needed to step up, we stepped up, and our offense did the same."

On how the team just moved on to the next play...
"We have one of those sayings: clear it. When something bad happens or something good happens--clear it. Move on to the next play. I think our players on defense especially did a great job being able to do that."

Baylor DT Andrew Billings

On the importance of playing this game at home...
"The home crowd was amazing. Hearing the TCU chants and then the Baylor chants right over them--it was incredible to hear. "

On the difficulty of playing defense against TCU...
"It's difficult because they can throw whatever they want to throw at you anytime."

Baylor WR KD Cannon

On the team coming back...
"We just kept our heads on straight. We knew it was going to come back sooner or later. We just believed in Bryce [Petty] and believed in our defense."

On describing what happened...
"There's no way to describe it. It was amazing. I've never been a part of something like that."

TCU Head Coach Gary Patterson

Opening statement...
"I have to say defensively, that's not a very good day. We have to give Baylor credit. They found a way to come back. We didn't finish to the end. It comes down to five or six plays--five verticals and a snap over the head. Those three points could have made a difference. We could have been ahead three points. But you have to play better defense and that's what I told them in there. When you play somebody at home, you have to drive the spike, and we didn't. We were up 21 points and we didn't get that game. You have to give Coach Briles credit. Him and his staff kept playing and doing it. When you play in somebody else's house, you have to get ready to go."

On the conversation about bringing the punt team out on that last fourth down...
"We were going to try a punt fake. Even if we kicked it to the five yard line, I didn't know if we could have stopped them, so we were trying to finish it at home. You go for two at West Virginia and you make it and you're a hero. You go for fourth down at the 40 and we make it, there's 1:42 left and you have an opportunity to go down and kick a field goal and win it. So you roll the dice and see what happens. I also felt good. Their field goal kicker kicked well today, but he had not kicked well before he got to today, so I felt like if we did anything, we could keep a long field goal and still go to overtime. Obviously, hindsight is a lot easier to do than at the time."

On what he said to Briles after the game...
"Number one, I apologize for the situation that happened a year ago to him. I'll be honest with you, I had a player kind of threaten me on the field after the ballgame--Baylor--over the same situation, but I'm going to go on. I always call it how I see it, good or bad. But I wanted to make sure I waited a year until I got to here, at this point, when it was in the heat of the battle, to make sure I told him how I felt about the whole situation. Him and I are both later than we are earlier in this career. I feel bad for my kids because they played well enough. 58 points should be enough to win, and it wasn't tonight. So you've got to get ready to play."

On the yards that the defense gave up and whether he thinks they will need to do anything differently...
"We played the same way we always do. Guys that play every day have to make plays. It's as simple as that. You're not going to win very many ballgames when you let people throw it over your head. A guy that plays for the Chargers, I told him the same thing in a game against Baylor, and he learned a lesson. Well, I had two corners learn that tonight, and Jason Varett turned out okay. I think everybody else will turn out okay too. But the key to it is that we've got to outscore people. If that's what we need to do, then we need to go out and do that. We need to win enough ballgames to get where we need to get to. That's why we changed offenses. You could have been in a situation where maybe you were the old offense and we ran the football and didn't score as many points, we might have been behind. That's what last year was like."

On whether TCU can still think about a conference title...
"Why not? Oklahoma played in the Sugar Bowl last year and got beat right here the same way, only they got embarrassed. It was like 40 something to 13. So we're going to go play. Just like last week, I was having to tell people who my players are because no one was even paying attention to TCU. And now, because we got beat 61-58, now our life is over. Neither one was true. I even told them, `you've got to be able to handle success.' That was my talk this morning. That was my talk at the beginning of the week. You've got to be able to handle success. It's a lot harder to do that than failure, as a program. So now we've got to go back and get ready to play. Now we go back to our stadium where we have our energy from our own student section and all the things going, and we've got to find a way to beat Oklahoma State. Then we've got to find a way to beat Texas Tech and get bowl eligible. Then we go into November and nobody sitting in this room, I promise you, thought we had a chance to go 6-1, if we can pull that off. Nobody in this room. So we're going to keep battling."

TCU S Sam Carter

On the game plan being their best versus Baylor's best...
"We just didn't execute. We stopped them on drives and they made big plays on drives at the end of the game."

On thinking ahead...
"Take it one day at a time. We have Oklahoma State next, so we have to get ready to play. Offense did a great job. Defense didn't do enough."

TCU QB Trevone Boykin

On Patterson's faith in offense...
"We feel like we can throw the ball against any defense that we play. That's the thing we try to master. Baylor is a good defense and these are games that we basically have to come in and battle and take. They basically played a lot better than us and came out with a win."