Mack Brown Teams Quotations

We also understand that the percentage points and the rankings can change weekly. What we have to do is concentrate on winning. That's the only thing we have control over. It's only October, and what we want to do is to be one of the top two teams in December.

Let's shut it up and kick it off and let people enjoy the game. Hopefully, both teams will play well enough that the game lives up to the hype because sometimes they don't.

One of the things an undefeated team has to do to stay undefeated is handle this. And if you don't handle it, you're not one of the best teams in the country.

It¹s a compliment, because it¹s a place we haven¹t been in a long time and it sets our standard even higher. We also understand that the percentage points and the rankings can change weekly. What we have to do is concentrate on winning. That's the only thing we have control over. It¹s only October, and what we want to do is to be one of the top two teams in December.

We're the only two teams playing out of 119. It's the only two undefeated teams in the country. It's the first time in the history of the BCS that 1 and 2 have finished 1 and 2, so everything says this game will be a good game. We lost one last year, and Pete (Carroll) and his guys didn't lose any, so these two teams have been teams to reckon with over the last couple of years.

You never know how your team will respond to a stage like this. ... So many times teams in this setting try to be someone they're not because they do want to win so badly that they start taking on a personality that they think they have to have. Our team is good enough to win if we are just us.

This is arguably one of the best teams in school history. It's been a great run.

The (BCS has) got to hope there's not more than two undefeated teams at the end or they've (messed) up again, very honestly, ... That's what they've got to hope.

These two teams have been talked about for a month. It's a fun and exciting thing but now it's time to let the games begin.

These two teams have been talked about every day for a month. Good teams enjoy the hype.

I want to see us finish. I think we're one of the best teams in the nation.

I want to see us finish. I do think we are one of the best teams in the nation. I don't think there is any doubt about that, but I want to see us continue.

The message is we are one of the top two teams in the country. We won by 62, and that's without running it up. We have to enjoy this ride, enjoy this moment.

If you're good enough to finish where you want to, and that's to win all your games, you'd rather start high because it's a lot harder now to come from the bottom to the top than it used to be. If you're out of the top 10 and some other teams have good seasons, you can have a great year like Auburn did and not have a chance to win it all. So there's no doubt that it's more important. I wish we started polls in October. Since we do not, I'd rather be rated high.

If you've got two beautiful girls, I don't think you have to pick. If there are two beautiful girls, I don't think I'm going to say, 'Her hair's a little shorter' or 'Her hair's a different color'. These are two great offenses. It's hard to score to 50 points. How many times in the history of college football have two teams averaging 50 points played against each other at the end of the year?

Good teams enjoy the hype, and they have the ability to focus. Young people come to Texas and SC for this game, and it's been a long time for us to get back to this game, and we took a baby step last year in this environment. I've talked to the kids about it. The only difference between this year and last year is the stakes are bigger.

This is a great test for us and a great challenge for the Big 12 and Big Ten conferences. You have to enjoy a game that matches two teams where Woody Hayes and Darrell Royal once coached, and there's a ton of tradition there.