IN QUOTES

“This week we’re going to beat the hell out of each other. Last week we just sat around and got the pub. Today . . . we were pathetic.”

MATT MITRIONE

Purdue player on the kind of practices he expects this week after the Boilermakers lost to Michigan State, 30-10

“I got an early Christmas present. Offensive linemen aren’t supposed to do that. It happened today. It’s one of those dreams you have.”

THOMAS MOODY

Florida lineman after he scored the go-ahead points on a tipped pass in the Gators’ 41-21 victory over South Carolina

“We weren’t playing against Wake Forest today, we were playing against a computer and we didn’t win. You gotta win big these days and I don’t think we won big enough.”

MARVIN MINNIS

Florida State receiver after his team defeated 1-8 Wake Forest rather modestly, 35-3

ETC.

Arnold Jackson became the NCAA Division I-A career receptions leader in Louisville’s 38-17 victory over Army. Jackson had seven catches, increasing his career total to 299, one more than Nevada’s Trevor Insley, who set the record last season. . . . Florida State’s Bobby Bowden earned his 314th victory, tying him with Amos Alonzo Stagg for the fourth-most in Division I-A history. . . . Tennessee State had a school-record 800 total yards in a 62-40 win over Murray State. . . . R.J. Bowers rushed for 226 yards and two touchdowns, padding his all-division NCAA records for scoring and yards rushing, as Grove City beat Alfred, 39-17. Bowers ended his career with 7,353 rushing yards and 562 points.