Sept. 6, 2014 Recap | Final Stats | USATI Photo Gallery 
Nevada quotes:
Head coach Brian Polian
Opening statement...
"It was ugly, wasn't always pretty, but the one thing you couldn't measure is the heart of our kids."
"I can't tell you how proud I am of this team. We found a way. We ran it well enough and we kept them off the field. I don't care how many yards we gave up, we bowed up in the red zone, we forced field goal attempts, and fortunately for us our guy had a better night than their guy did."
"I thought our quarterback was effective, obviously as a runner as well and we were going, and we were going make them defend that."
"On the negative we had to many penalties, but we were going to have to play aggressive tonight, we knew that, we were going to have to try and be physical."
"We held a Mike Leech offense to 13 points, and that is an incredible statement to our defense."
Senior QB Cody Fajardo
On the defense...
"I thought it was great, they forced two turnovers for us. We never felt pressured to score on every drive which was great."
On the offense...
"Our mindset is that they are Washington State they throw on every down, so their defense is used to seeing a lot of passes, the rush is different for them, so we are going to run it on them because they are not used to a power rush.
Senior DE Brock Hekking
Opening statement...
"That was one of the funnest games I have played since I got here."
"There was so much energy out there, from our fans, from out teammates, from the offense. It was truly unbelievable, this was a special game."
On being able to shut them down...
"We wanted it more. Honestly when you look at a Pac-12 team they have all the bells and whistles, they have the nice uniforms, all of that. You know we are just blue collar guys, and this senior class has made it a point for this team to love the game of football and to leave it all out there."
Washington State quotes:
Head Coach Mike Leach
On the offensive struggles...
"We need to coach better. Right now all we do is splatter plays. We have the ability to make a play; we don't have the ability to do it consistently. We have plenty of yards, plenty of plays, but we can't put it together."
On the defense...
"I thought we played better on defense (then we did last week)"
Message to the players...
"We have to stick together and work hard - we can't go soft. We have an inclination to make a good play then relax. We don't play the next play very well. We will make some plays, but we have to finish drives. We have to coach better, we have to stick together, and play together. Our Offense played reasonable last week and the defense relaxes all day. The defense plays well this week and the offense will get a play or two then relax. Nobody can beat anybody on one side of the ball."
Senior QB Connor Halliday
On being hit early...
"I don't know if it rattled me, but anytime a quarterback gets hit early it speeds up the clock in their heads."
On the second quarter...
"I think we played pretty well in the second quarter. I think we played as a team in the second quarter. It didn't change in the third quarter, we drove down inside the 10 four or five times and we just got dumb penalties.
On the team's mindset...
"We need to get a win Saturday, get to 1-2 and then get to 2-2. Just keep battling."
