More importantly, they all had faith in the plan.
���It just comes down to execution,������ said wide
receiver Jared Abbrederis, who reminded everyone of his background as a high school quarterback with his 27-yard pass to Phillips that set up a
1-yard touchdown run by White. ���Everybody had
their assignments down and we were a well-oiled
machine.
���It has been a year full of adversity and we���ve
had to overcome all those closes losses. But tonight made it all worth it and I was excited to be a
part of it.������
In the end, it really came down to one thing.
���We never stopped believing in ourselves,������ said
tight Jacob Pedersen, who didn���t have to say anything more.
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Curt Phillips knows the spotlight will be shining more brightly than ever on the trio of tailbacks
that made life so miserable for the Nebraska defense, especially its secondary.
���Everybody will be talking about Montee and
James and Melvin ��� and it was awesome watching them play because they were so pumped up,������
Phillips said.
���But it just shows how hard those guys up front
work. They took it personally last week (at Penn
State) when things didn���t work out necessarily like
we wanted them to.
���If you give running backs ��� the caliber of running backs that we have ��� any glimpse of daylight,
they���re going to do something with it.������
All the window dressing ��� the shifts and motions ��� made it even more problematic for Ne-
