USC Trojans discuss their statement win against Ohio State

Both your running backs averaged over five yards a carry tonight. How much pride do you take in that, and how big was that in tonight's game? Yeah, I think it was a good stepping stone for us. I think our running backs did a good job, and I think we did a good job game-planning the run game. So that was a good stepping stone for us, yeah. Wayman, how are you feeling tonight? I felt amazing. I feel like the O-line played deep. So, I mean, they moved people off the ball all night and just dominated the trenches up front. So why is it after the last game a lot of people started counting you out? I mean, this would be like a statement to just defy everybody that was down on you guys. Yeah, I think everything, every game is a statement game, and it's just, it's tough coming off a loss, but we can't focus on that. We've got to focus on the game that's ahead of us, and now we're moving on to the next game, and focus on that. But I still think the opponents are much better, and it was different in those two games. It was a lot different. I feel like we just tried to focus on, like, focus on what we were doing, instead of, like... Just focus on whatever, all the outside noise and like what their plan is, like what they have, like just doing what we do best and like getting back to the basics of like what we do as an outline. So as Hodge Riley was just saying how this program is built on internal joy and not external flaws, what does that mean to you? This is, like, no offense to anybody who's outside the building, but, like, nothing matters but the people in the building and, like, who we have inside the building and, like, how we get along each day. Like, those are the guys that we're around every day and, like, those are the opinions that, like, truly matter to us, you know what I mean? So, like, just focus on our inside noise and, like, focus on what we have and what we're capable of and just expanding on that.