"I'm sure that our players feel like I do. I feel like I've been gut punched. Really disappointed. I thought we had plenty of chances. You have to give them credit. They made plays when they had to and came back and won the game. We let it slip away from us." – Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson
"The momentum change was right before halftime when we were up 21-7 and we run the play action and the guy (A-back Clinton Lynch) is behind him and we don't hit it and then we let them come down and score a touchdown with a minute and 15 seconds. We had another special-teams blunder where we dropped the snap. Right now, we're not good enough at any facet to overcome that. We need contributions from everybody. It's got to be offense, defense, special teams. There's no one group that's good enough to carry the other side." – Johnson
"It's a killer because we're already down Pat (Gamble). We're already down one of the guys so when you lose Adam (Gotsis), and not only is he your team captain, he's one of your better players, he's one of the guys with experience and, yeah, it hurts to lose him. For sure, no question."– Johnson on the disqualification of defensive tackle Adam Gotsis for targeting
"We hadn't seen it on film, but we knew they were a gimmick team. They run reverses and everything. They just threw a pass off it. It's just something new we've got to see and got to go make a play." – safety Jamal Golden on the touchdown pass off a reverse to UNC quarterback Marquise Williams
"Definitely, it's frustrating when a lot of small things add up. That's definitely a pattern we saw there, but when you look back at any loss, you can really point to a lot of small things anyway. I think that it's frustrating, but a loss is frustrating. It's something you've got to move forward from, and it's something you can't let break you down." – guard Trey Braun
"The first thing is, we have to make an adjustment of goals, and that's always very disappointing, but it's definitely not something that we can let put this team in the ground. There's a lot of season left and I know all my peers on the football team, all my brothers there, I know we don't have any give-up in us." – Braun
"No-huddle's something we always look at putting in. We just got the chance to this season. I'm excited. I like the pace of a no-huddle offense. I think it's something that complements the spread option well and I think we'll use it more in the future, but that's what we have to look at, look at the game film and make decisions." – Braun
"We had a play where everyone was supposed to rush, and if you see the running back come your way, you go with him. And I went with the running back and Williams, he takes a chance every time he sees a gap, so he saw a gap and he went ahead and took it and scored." – defensive end KeShun Freeman on the 27-yard scoring run by Williams in the fourth quarter
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