“I kind of felt bad down the stretch (because) there were two plays I could have made to help this team and obviously send the senior class out on a winning note. I came up short, so any play you make prior to that is kind of scratched, so to say. My apologies to my teammates. I felt bad it came down to me and I couldn’t deliver, but these guys are a resilient group, proud of this group. We still had a chance to come back and win it. Unfortunately for myself I wasn’t able to pull out the victory. This whole team has a lot of bright things in the future for this program and the younger guys.”
— Senior tight end Arthur Lynch, who caught six passes for 69 yards, on dropping his last two passes.
“That was a huge play, the 99-yarder. It was almost like 99.9. I know there will never be a longer play in the history of college football than that was.”
— Nebraska coach Bo Pelini on the 99-yard TD pass from Tommy Armstrong to Quincy Enunwa
“It was one of those calls where you don’t have too many options out there, stuck on your own 1-yard line. Luckily our coaches trust in us as playmakers.”
— Nebraska’s Enunwa, who had 129 yards and two TDs on four receptions
“I don’t think anybody wants to go out there and slosh around and have a bunch of rain coming down, all slick and that kind of thing. It makes it tougher to execute in the passing game, obviously. But I thought as time went on Hutson got used to the elements and did a really good job. Hutson’s a great football player, great person and great leader for our football team.”
— Georgia coach Mark Richt on the play of quarterback Hutson Mason, who was 21-of-39 for 320 yards and a touchdown.
“I think we all aspire to be a head coach one day. Where at, I don’t know. But I also aspire to win a championship here at the University of Georgia. We’ve been close so many times and I feel like the ingredients are there. I also feel like Mark Richt is one of the best coaches in the country and we have a lot of great players here. There’s just little things we have to improve on.”
— Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo on his career aspirations
“It’s awesome. There’s no words to describe it. This game, the win, is the championship to us. This sends us out right and sends the young guys into next season full of pride.”
— Nebraska DE Jason Ankrah on Nebraska breaking its 0-4 bowl streak against the SEC
“It’s just one of those games that didn’t go our way. It is what it is. You just can’t get down about it. You have to move on. It’s going to be hard because we don’t have another game for eight months from now.”
— Georgia tailback Todd Gurley on another close loss
“It seems the worst things happened to us this year at the worst time imaginable.”
— Georgia outside linebacker Jordan Jenkins on defensive breakdowns
“When you give up a 99-yard pass like that, you’ve got to play a lot of plays really good to overcome that. That’s seven points for them, that’s field position, that’s at least a 10-point swing. To our guys’ credit, they kept playing and fighting. (Cornerback) Shaq (Wiggins) came back and got an interception. So I thought they played really hard, and they’ve done that all season.”
— Georgia defensive coordinator Todd Grantham on the play of Georgia's secondary
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